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By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing, April 23, 2024
John Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is a former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. All views herein are exclusively his.
Elementarz etyczyny (“The Ethics Primer”) is an underappreciated part of Karol Wojtyła’s pre-papal corpus. Which is unfortunate, because it says much that’s quite important for us to hear today. It’s a collection of twenty essays – really columns – he wrote in 1957-58 for the Kraków Catholic newspaper, Tygodnik Powszechny. They deal with a range of philosophical questions, from the source of morality to the role of struggle in social ethics, from asceticism to the compatibility of Christian ethics with authentic humanism. Many of the essays are Christian jabs at the postulates of Marxism, though no small number also criticize Kant, whose ethics were then taken quite seriously in various European quarters.
Philosophical assumptions guide a culture, and Wojtyła examined several that were regularly served up in Communist-occupied Poland. But Wojtyła also identified the deeper truth that philosophy can lead (or mislead) a culture. …
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