From Person to Community. The Theory of Participation According to Karol Wojtyła

Redakcja — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:31:37 +0000

Dr Wojciech Wojtyła

Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom

English abstract: The article shows the category of participation as the key, proposed by Karol Wojtyła, to understanding the person-community relationship. The philosopher from Kraków argues that a person fully reveals themselves as a personal being only when they work together with others on the foundation of participation. The capacity for subjective participation, which forms part of the very structure of a person, both determines a personalistic nature of the acts performed by the person, and also enables them to fulfil themselves in relation to others. For Wojtyła, participation is the antithesis of alienation, and its affirmation enables overcoming both the antinomy between the individual and the community, and the one-sided concepts of individualism and collectivism.

Keywords: subject, society, self-agency, self-realization

Language: Polish

Published: Number 4(25)/2020, pp. 103-117.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2020.4.103

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Philosophical Roots of the Dialogical Concept of Law

Redakcja — Wed, 03 May 2017 20:56:21 +0000

Dr Anna Rossmanith

University of Warsaw

Abstract: The main task which I pose for myself is to indicate the philosophical roots of the dialogical concept of law. First and foremost, I would like to present dialogue in the context of ancient Greek philosophy and in the context of the classicists of the philosophy of dialogue. Furthermore, I seek phenomenological bases for constructing the dialogical concept of law. The phenomenological method, starting with its classical Husserlian form, has undergone many changes. Thanks to the indication of new horizons of phenomenology by Emmanuel Levinas, discovering dialogical consciousness and the subject constituted in being with the Other are possible. The reference point of reflections on the concept of law is the relationship with the Other as an ethical relationship. Philosophy of dialogue is a certain possible prism of thinking about the social, public, and institutional space. It is thinking through the prism of dialogue (speaking), but also through the third who contributes discourse relevant to what is said. Law as the third, as the mediating element, is a co-constituting element of the entire legal world.

Language: English

Keywords: dialogue, philosophy of dialogue, encounter, phenomenology, the Other, existentialism, subject, ethical relationship, difference, logos

Published: Number 2(13)/2016, pp. 51-58.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2016.2.51