Karol Wojtyla and his personalistic vision of man

Abstract

The main concern of Karol Wojtyla as a thinker is the quest for man, centered in the defense of the dignity of the human person. Wojtila is a thinker and a writer on Christian humanism and his style is imbued with personalistic philosophy. His writings and re6ections deal with the truth about man, life and love.
Jrough an interpretative exercise, this study describes how personalism is a valid anthropological and philosophical option nowadays, when there is a conspiracy against life as a common phenomenon. Jis is the analysis defended by the author of this study concerning the ontological postulates of the thinker Wojtila on human topics, and following this order of ideas, the question of “dignity” is the core issue for the Holy Father. Jis notion entails the personalistic norm of action which determines the condition of a person as an end not as a mean; the person has an irreducible dignity, the fundamental good in life. Je focus of this article has been put on the identi:cation of the particular humanistic vision Karol Wojtyla, as a philosopher and highest pontiff of the church.