ACTING PERSON AND THE QUEST FOR INTEGRAL HUMANISM IN THE CRISIS OF TRUTH
ACTING PERSON AND THE QUEST FOR INTEGRAL HUMANISM IN THE CRISIS OF TRUTH

Summary/Abstract: The pragmatic recognitions of the developmental contents of lived experiences necessarily shape and reshape our world of developmental values and ideologies dependably on the phenomenology of one’s actions. Such praxis specifies that the sustainability of human world is hinged on the values we placed ourselves as persons, as subjects of lived experiences and as agents of development. This is the existential valuation of integral humanism where our beingness is directed towards defining and reforming the ontological wholeness of the person in terms of valuing the Culture of Peace rather than the fuelling of the Culture of War. This paper, adopting the phenomenological method, analyses Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)’s phenomenology of the person as the ontologised ethics of living, Such philosophy recognises that both Culture of Peace and Culture of War are solely products of human actions dependably on the valuation of lived experiences, and it is regarded as the core of Wojtylan Existential Personalism as the philosophy of integral humanism. The paper recognised that both Culture of War and Culture of Peace are occasioned by the valuations of truth, and when improperly managed, engender the Crisis of Truth due to human freedom expressed through actions. For Wojtylan Existential Personalism, if lived experiences are properly interpreted, employed and managed, necessarily shape the present and then, more importantly, the future of the human person, as an active agent of development. The paper concludes that, away from the influences of the crisis of truth inherent in our modern, economic-driven world of values and ideologies, the values of Culture of Peace remain strongly and inevitably indispensably in achieving integral humanism.

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