Published : 2026-03-25

Karol Wojtyła’s Realistic Phenomenology of Consciousness

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Karol Wojtyła’s phenomenology of specific consciousness can be described as purely noematic: contact with a person and being is direct and occurs before the threshold of consciousness, therefore it is not mediated by it; otherwise it would constitute a specific region of being. Consciousness cannot be identified with the I. Consciousness, therefore, cannot exist as a subject, neither as ontic experience nor as a mental faculty. The basic concept here is, therefore, that of self-knowledge. Consciousness does not objectivize, but merely reflects that what has been objectified by general knowledge and self-knowledge; thus the being is prior to consciousness. True realism can be built not on the consciousness of thinking, but on the consciousness of action, which is an act of creation and establishing a person in memory. This article examines the place of the concept of consciousness within 20th-century philosophy. It also attempts to outline the state of its reception. The importance and excellence of this concept in contemporary philosophy is highlighted by juxtaposing it with the philosophy of such prominent figures as Ingarden, Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre.

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noematic phenomenology, consciousness, self-knowledge, subject, realism



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Lisak, A. (2026). Karol Wojtyła’s Realistic Phenomenology of Consciousness. Roczniki Filozoficzne, 74(1), 265–303. https://doi.org/10.18290/rf26741.12

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