W ręku rady jego

Abstract

The Christian conception makes out a man as a human being created by God and Favoured with Dignity of the God’s image. The modern philosophy shows the other concepcion of a man as a self-sufficient free human being. John Paul II in his encyclic „Veritatis splendor” rejects existing on the philosophical and theological plan, the internal dispute in the matter of absolutization of human freedom as groundless. The Pope refers to the natural law, basing on the traditional teaching of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. According to this teaching the natural law relies on participation of the human mind in the God’s Wisdom. Autonomy of the human reason would lead to the most constructive function of the human mind. A man as a person is the unit. Sovereign activity of the will is possible then, after the act of recognition the truth. Aspiration for recognition the truth unites with the social nature of a man. Faithfulness to the truth puts a man more than once as against dramatic difficulties. A man appears as an actor on the stage acting the play of life directed by God.