Ku integralnej wizji człowieka–osoby. Elementy antropologii Karola Wojtyły
Towards an integral vision of the human person. Elements of Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the analyses carried out in this article is, according to Wojtyła’s words, an attempt to understand the human person for herself, in order to answer the challenge that human experience brings in all her wealth, as well as the existential problem of man in the modern world. The content of the article consists of analyses of selected fragments from the anthropological works of Wojtyła. It is considered in turn: the specificity of the person in relation to nature, the person-nature dynamism, the concepts of transcendence and integration of the person, the soul-body relationship, the unity of the person, and the purpose of personal life. Wojtyła’s anthropological effort was to capture what is irreducible in man, keeping his ontological and subjective (conscious) dimension. The starting point for the analyses is the composition of man of different factors reducible to carnality and spirituality (taken at the beginning as the experiential phenomena). The analysis of a person’s transcendence and then so called integration of nature in a person showing the unification of various structures into the ontic oneness, strives in a methodically grounded way to show the integrity and uniquenessof man as a person. The specific personal existence that justifies also the ontic unity of man, is grasped in the acts of lived experience, in the categories of self-ruling and self-owning, inthe experience of transcendence, as well as in his corporeality.The culminating moment of this reflection is drawing attention to the fact that man fulfills himself as a person through a kind of personal openness to truth, goodness and beauty, which is manifested especially in union with another human being, and in the desire to unite with the very source of existence, the personal Absolute.

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