Filozofia personalistyczna Karola Wojtyły a alienacja współczesnego człowieka

Abstract

Although social life is an unquestionable fact, although from a sociological point of view, it is a universal phenomenon. The sources pertaining to its genesis are various. Plato spoke of the organic entity of social life. Aristotle discussed human needs in the social development of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau referred to the convention hypothesis. Baruch Spinoza considered collective human actions as an expression of the general will of the Absolute. Christian philosophy sees social life as a natural and primary condition of the human being. In view of that, from the perspective of Christian personalistic philosophy, man makes up a part of the universum, living in the specified environment to which he is related in various ways. Through his psychophysical structure, man is out of his nature directed towards social life and consequently, he seeks contact with the other persons in the society. Therefore, Karol Wojtyła emphasizes the indispensability of social life in terms of material and biological needs of the human being and the intersubjective experiences by sharing thoughts, values and moral relations.