DOJRZEWANIE DO WIECZNOŚCI. CZASOWY WYMIAR LUDZKIEGO ISTNIENIA W PERSPEKTYWIE ANTROPOLOGII KAROLA WOJTYŁY
Maturing Towards Eternity: The Temporality of Human Existence in the Light of Karol Wojtyła’s Anthropology

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to show some possible ways of facing contingency, which is an inevitable element of human experience. The first of the discussed ways is modern science, which dramatically limits the contingency of human life, but cannot eliminate it completely. The other is religion, which not only offers a solution to the problem of the existential contingency of the human being, but also makes the problem even more radical. The paper analyzes existential contingence as expressed in the temporality of the human person, drawing on two authors: R. Ingarden and K. Wojtyła. According to Ingarden, the human person transcends contingency, realizing the values of Truth, Beauty and Good that persist in time. Wojtyła also states that the transcendence of the human person consists in realizing those values, but he adds that the values themselves can persist only if they are rooted in the eternity of the Absolute Person

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