RECOVERING PHILOSOPHY AS THE LOVE OF WISDOM: A CONTRIBUTION OF ST. JOHN PAUL II
Journal Title: Studia Gilsoniana - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
The article aims at demonstrating that, by his teaching on human person and his action, St. John Paul II (also known as Karol Wojtyła) implicitly contributed to a resolution of the most serious problem of contemporary philosophy, which consists in separating wisdom from love and substituting wisdom with understanding or knowledge. The author concludes that John Paul II makes a persuasive contribution to recover philoso-phy as the love of wisdom by (1) identifying truth in the area of freedom, self-fulfillment and conscience, and (2) appealing to man’s honesty and happiness.
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Pawel Tarasiewicz
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