Could 5, 2023
Catholic College of America Press lately
launched a significant new sequence: the
English Crucial Version of the Works of
Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. The primary quantity of the sequence was
a brand new translation of Wojtyła’s 1969 guide Particular person and Act,
together with associated essays.
In Particular person and Act Wojtyła set forth
the muse of his mix of phenomenology, Thomism and
personalism, a basis underlying a lot of his different
philosophical and theological writing. The primary English
translation is usually thought-about to be fairly inaccurate, and,
crucially, eliminated the Latin phrases by which Wojtyła refers back to the
Thomistic and scholastic custom, resulting in a misunderstanding
that Wojtyła was way more of a pure phenomenologist and fewer of a
Thomist than he actually was. Thus the brand new translation by Gregorz
Ignatik is a big second for the reception of Wojtyła/John
Paul II’s thought within the Anglosphere.
On this episode, Timothy Flanders joins Thomas
Mirus to debate Particular person and Act as they try to
boil down among the key factors of this fairly difficult guide,
to set Wojtyła’s philosophy in its mental, cultural, and
spiritual context, and displaying why his insights about human
consciousness, the expertise of morality, and the particular person are
essential for us as properly.
Factors mentioned embrace:
- How Wojtyła’s use of phenomenology and
personalism pertains to the standard Aristo-Thomistic
anthropology - The significance of phenomenological strategies
for the “therapeutic of expertise” and giving an goal account of
the subjective - Correcting trendy errors about
consciousness - The idea of the particular person in relation to the
conventional idea of human nature - The necessity to combine cognition with
expertise and the hazard of the “emotionalization of
consciousness” - The centrality of morality to personhood
Hyperlinks
The That means of Catholic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMoKEEA-KKDNgx3icjA36Q
Particular person and Act and Associated
Essays https://www.cuapress.org/9780813233666/person-and-act-and-related-essays/
Beneficial secondary sources:
Accessible:
Crosby, The Personalism of John Paul
II https://www.amazon.com/Personalism-John-Paul-II/dp/1939773148
Jablonska, A Pope for All
Seasons
https://www.amazon.com/Pope-All-Seasons-Testimonies-Impressed/dp/1621388840
Much less accessible:
Buttiglione, Karol Wojtyla: The Considered
the Man Who Grew to become Pope John Paul II https://www.amazon.com/Karol-Wojtyla-Thoughtof-Grew to become-Thought-ebook/dp/B002BWPTOW
Weigel, Witness to Hope: The
Biography of Pope John Paul II
https://www.amazon.com/Witness-Hope-Biography-Pope-John/dp/0062996010/
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