The “Nature-Person” Drama in Karol Wojty?a’s Philosophy of Man
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Metyper.2011.v0i5.2793Keywords:
person, human nature, metaphysical subjectivity, experience, act, self-knowledge, slef-consciousness, communio personarumAbstract
The theoretical kernel of Karol Wojty?a’s philosophy of man is represented by the intrinsic nexus “nature-person”, deep-rooted in the hearth of Christian theology (and Christological meditation): the human person possesses its nature, but it is irreducible to its nature; therefore person can integrate nature, “personalizing” it through conscious operativity. Accordingly, a peculiar dramatic tension springs up between person and its nature: human experience and human act constitute the specific field of this drama. Experience, inscribed into the dynamic of meeting another person, also reveals the inner dialogue between self-knowledge and self-consciousness. The metaphysical subjectivity is investigated in the light of a hypostatic and communional ontology: the human person is originally inscribed into communio personarum and it is destined to the transformation in Christ, i.e. metanoia and divinisation of man (Theosis).
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