Ku aretologii personalistycznej

Abstract

The Catholic doctrine about virtues has been formed on the basis of the philosophical Hellenistic reflection. Supplemented by biblical premises for all centuries it has been present in moral theology. Owing to traditional aretology we encounter more and more criticism. The picture of virtue it outlines is too ontological, static, individualistic, and naturalistic. Thus there appear claims to have a more theological, Christocentric, and personalistic approach to virtue. This approach would truly render the specific character of moral action at the level of Christian existence, and it would take into account the findings of the contemporary sciences about man. This kind of revival is still more a postulate than a fact.