Struktura bytowa człowieka według Karola Wojtyły

Abstract

The main argument of this article is to put foreword the metaphysical structure of a human being, such as it appears in the philosophical creation of Karol Wojtyla ‒ Pope John Paul II. In his fundamental work The Acting Person, Wojtyla gives an insight into the human being’s ontological structure, tracing its dynamisms. Following such a way, one can recognise the body with its somatic-reactive dynamism, then the psyche and its emotive dynamism, and the soul with its dynamism, which is proper to a human, being understood as a Person. Although a man consists of three “elements” it dos not mean, that a human being is sui generis ontologically “conglomerate” On the contrary, a human being makes a unity, an integrated whole. The integrating factor is his (or her) human spiritual soul.