Antropologiczny fundament odpowiedzialności

Abstract

John Paul II taught that the specific understanding of freedom, broadly popular today in public opinion, distracts man from ethical responsibility. In anthropology this causes a “split” between freedom and responsibility. Therefore it is necessary to discern and recognise the anthropological foundation of human responsibility. Karol Wojtyła focused on this fact, when he taught that freedom and its attendant responsibility did not consist in doing whatever one wishes to do, but in self-governance of necessity connected with truth. We mean here not only the truth recognised and interpreted from the theoretical point of view, but the truth that forms and constitutes the self as person. The freedom that goes hand in hand with the sense of accountability is a form in which the human person exists and has its sources in the fact that man was created in the image of God and after His liking. The real understanding of freedom, as a foundation of responsibility, must take into account the experience of evil and disloyalty to which man is able. Therefore man is called to use his freedom in an responsible manner, is responsible for his freedom, always in reference to the full truth about himself.