Moral life as a journey towards human transcendence
Moral life as a journey towards human transcendence

Summary/Abstract: Personalism in the Lublin School of Philosophy is developed on the foundation of metaphysics of being. One of the most prominent names associated with this school is Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec. I devoted my doctoral dissertation to the search for the basis of human transcendence in the light of Krapiec’s metaphysics of man. This article is originally part of that doctoral research work. The basic thrust of the article centers on the moral life, which is one of the dimensions in which context human transcendence is realized. In order to demonstrate this, I presented moral life metaphorically as a journey towards a destination, namely human transcendence. Given that moral virtues are indispensable for moral transcendence, I considered them to be the very means of transportation which brings the human being to this destination so described. Besides the introductory and concluding parts, the article consists of four segments, viz: a consideration of the social context of morality, a discourse on the moral journey towards human transcendence, and the discussion of two co-related examples of human transcendence in the moral domain – moral correction and overcoming moral evil.

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