Imperatyw personalistyczny Karola Wojtyły jako zasada organizująca relacje międzyosobowe. Zarys problematyki

Abstract

The personalistic norm is one of key issues in Karol Wojtyla’s philosophical discourse. In the study of ethics “Love and Responsibility” (1960) he emphasized the need to raise the status of a person in response to contemporary cultural and philosophical trends, especially utilitarianism. A person is a good to which the only possible reference should be love and, as a consequence, a person can never be reduced to an object of use. Wojtyła always considered the personalistic imperative as the foundation of the civilization of love, which he later, as pope John Paul II, called to be built. The civilization of love, which is based on the personalistic norm, is a way of existing reciprocal relationships between people, both at the individual level and in a much broader sense ‒ intemationally.