Might 5, 2023
Catholic College of America Press just lately
launched a significant new collection: the
English Vital Version of the Works of
Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. The primary quantity of the collection was
a brand new translation of Wojtyła’s 1969 e book Individual and Act,
together with associated essays.
In Individual and Act Wojtyła set forth
the inspiration 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 mostly thought of 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 major second for the reception of Wojtyła/John
Paul II’s thought within the Anglosphere.
On this episode, Timothy Flanders joins Thomas
Mirus to debate Individual and Act as they try and
boil down among the key factors of this fairly difficult e book,
to set Wojtyła’s philosophy in its mental, cultural, and
non secular context, and displaying why his insights about human
consciousness, the expertise of morality, and the particular person are
vital for us as nicely.
Factors mentioned embody:
- How Wojtyła’s use of phenomenology and
personalism pertains to the normal 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 Which means of Catholic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaMoKEEA-KKDNgx3icjA36Q
Individual and Act and Associated
Essays https://www.cuapress.org/9780813233666/person-and-act-and-related-essays/
Really useful 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 Turned Pope John Paul II https://www.amazon.com/Karol-Wojtyla-Thoughtof-Turned-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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