Totalitarna koncepcja człowieka w świetle nauczania Jana Pawła II
The totalitarian conception of man in the light of the teaching of John Paul II

Summary/Abstract: In the teaching of Saint John Paul II the problem of totalitarianism and totalitarian structures plays important role. According to the Pope source of totalitarianism and all defective social systems is an anthropological error, so this is such concept of a man which, in essential aspects, is not adequate with the reality, which a man is. For John Paul II totalitarianism is not neutral way of governing, but completely wrong in a theoretical sense, morally wrong and, regardless of its legality, acting unlawfully structure and mechanism of organization of social life. The author is recognized anthropology of this system by analyzing the origins, ontological status, the relationship of man to power, and the ultimate goal of man that emerges from totalitarianism described by the Pope. Totalitarian anthropology, denying the transcendence of man in its genesis, personal status and purpose of existence, and completely subordinating him to the power state is not merely a result of totalitarian order. In fact it is a basic tool effects on a man, set point him lie in his essence, in this who he is, what he wants and where it is going to. It is a tool of spiritual enslavement and complete neutralization of a man in his humanity because a main task of totalitarianism is not possession of a nature, but power over a man and society.

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