By becoming Pope, the philosopher Wojtyla precipitated the hitherto obscure school of phenomenological personalism on to the central stage of Catholic thought. This philosophical approach does not contradict the more traditional Thomistic tradition, but it is new and modern in several important respects. However, it is unfamiliar to Anglo-Saxon philosophers who have not specialized in Continental thought. The question that the author finds at the heart of the Pope's thinking is not the abstract question of how to define the human person, but the Gospel and existential question, "Who is my neighbour?". By answering this, Wojtyla provides a footbridge into the very heart of Christian experience and the meaning of love.
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Part 1: To The Heart Of The Drama; 1. Introduction; 2. Philosophical Reflections Unfolded; 3. Quid Est Homo? 4. Wojtyla and the Lublin School of Philosophy; 5. Encounter with Phenomenology; 6. Between Scylla and Charybdis; 7. The Acting Person; Part II: The Neighbour As Paradigm Towards An Adequate Philosophy Of The Human Person; 1. The Acting Person: The New Element; 2. Participation Defined: The Ontological Underpinning; 3. The Ethical Expansion of Participation: The Commandment of Love; 4. Conclusion: A New Ontological-Ethical Anthropology Stemming from the 'as'; Part III: The Enactment Of The Drama Of The Human Person; 1. From 'Wojtyla I' to 'Wojtyla II'; 2. Homo Ethicus-Interpersonalis: Ethical-Phenomenological Application to a New Galileo Crisis; 3. Homo Aestheticus: Art as an Attempt at Recapturing the Reality of the Human Person; 4. Homo Oeconomicus; Part IV: Footbridge Towards The Other; Conclusions; Index
