Wojtyła and Krąpiec: Two Ways of Re-Empirizing Thomistic Anthropology

Piotr Stanisław Mazur

doi:10.18290/rf23711.13

Published : 2023-03-31

Vol. 71 No. 1 (2023)

Wojtyła and Krąpiec: Two Ways of Re-Empirizing Thomistic Anthropology

Piotr Stanisław Mazur

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6399-8133

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf23711.13

Abstract

The development of studies on the first- and third-person human experience which took place in the 20th century revealed the need to re-empirize Thomistic anthropology. Among the thinkers who undertook this task were Karol Wojtyła and Mieczysław Krąpiec. This re-empirization was linked with adapting the cognitive tools developed within the modern philosophy of the subject to descriptions of the first-person experience. Wojtyła assumed that the starting point of the cognition of the personal subject was the experience of performing an act, in opposition to what happens within a man. Krąpiec criticized this concept and proposed basing Thomistic anthropology on the subjective experience of existence, in which the ‘I’ manifests itself through ‘my’-acts. The experience of the act, on the one hand, and the immanence and transcendence of the self in relation to ‘my’-acts, on the other hand, allowed these philosophers to build an anthropological bridge to the Thomistic system.

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Karol Wojtyła, Mieczysław Krąpiec, Thomistic anthropology, first-person experience, empirization, re-empirization

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