Studia Gdańskie, 2000, T. 13

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    Implikacje pedagogiczne antropologii Jacquesa Maritaina
    Cichosz, Wojciech (Kuria Metropolitalna Gdańska, 2000)
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    Koncepcja osoby ludzkiej w filozofii św. Tomasza z Akwinu
    Cichosz, Wojciech (Kuria Metropolitalna Gdańska, 2000)
    While reading an extensive literature on the topic of a person and personality one can notice that unequivocal reading and understanding of the above mentioned notions is not entirely possible. The word person, which comes from the Greek prosopon (προσοπον) and Latin persona, has an ample history and meaning. The case is similar with words such as personality and personalism, which originate from it. Nevertheless, one thing is certain - everything took its beginning in the ancient Greek culture. At first the Greek word prosopon signified a mask used by an actor on the stage while playing the role of mythical hero or gods. As the time went by this term was used to signify the actor himself. Christian religion was a powerful impulse in the process of crystalisation of the meaning of the word person. It should be remembered that in the Bible God is a person. The Hebrew word phaneh should be translated as: the figure, or countenance expressing the whole human individual or God himself. Usually the way Boethius formulated this notion is treated as elementary: persona est naturae rationalis individua subtantia (a person is an individual substance of rational naturę). The conception of a person suggested by Saint Thomas is characterised by the following features: • the notion of the person consists of autonomy, reasoning and individual existence; • this notion also includes wholeness, therefore separately existing human soul is not a person; • the name of the person indicates inseparability or individuality of entity existing in any nature; • a person signifies a concrete man, and this stands for uniqueness and exclusivity; • a person is something far more than an individualised nature; • not every individual entity is a person, although it is included in the generic notion of substance, but this refers only to an entity that exists by itself (per se); • a person also signifies independence from any whole. A human person cannot be reduced to any worldly value, as man consists of both body and soul, which is spiritual, non-materialistic and timeless; • only a man can be called a person because he is the only singular entity (singulare) characterised by thinking nature that exists in natural world. Saint Thomas preserves the substantialistic theory of human person while referring back to both Aristotle and Boethius. Nevertheless, he sees the ontological condition of a person in a different element than Boethius. He assumes that the condition of the reality of the substance is the act of existence. Such attitude is a typically existential formulation and it is based on ascribing real existence to something only then if a given substance was originated by the act of existence.
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    Założenia antropologiczno-społeczne stanowiska Kościoła wobec współczesnych zagadnień demograficznych
    Balicki, Janusz (Kuria Metropolitalna Gdańska, 2000)
    The above analysis constitutes the basis for believing that controversies around population issues between the Apostolic See and developed countries arise from different answers to the question who a man is, and from different concepts of humanity and society. The Apostolic See, as we have noticed, does not negate the existence of serious population problems connected with high natural increase. It only consequently demands to remember that we talk about a human person, a being of great dignity and not about impersonal numbers presenting unspecified population (according to a statement of a certain person from Asia: Women have children and not a population). A human person in a Christian anthropology is a creature with a body and soul, having a central place among other creatures and of eternal destination. Christian belief in the dignity of human person, resulting from faith in the creation of human being and likeness to God as well as from his salvation by Jesus Christ, was rationalized in the teaching of St. Thomas on human person. The dignity of human person is based on the fact that this person is endowed with mind and free will. According to the above mentioned assumptions about the dignity of human person: (1) it is contradictory – in John Paul ITs opinion – to introduce any activities that discriminate a human person on the basis of age, sex, religion or nationality. Human dignity and value is unconditioned and inalienable. (2) Human life from conception to natural death is sacred. It is inadmissible to carry out any programs which even for higher reasons allow for abortion or euthanasia. (3) Human rights are inborn and transcendent in relation to any legal order (constitutional). Neither international rights nor national ones may be in contradiction to basic human rights. (4) The basic unity of human species requires everyone to have access to the process of building a community, which is free from injustice and dishonesty and which protects common good. We cannot tolerate dishonesty and injustice in relations between poor and rich countries. And we cannot tolerate the situation when poor countries are forced to implement population control programs because of fears to violate the population balance between developed and developing countries.