“Things, Persons, and God” and the full meaning of “Auto-teleology” according to Karol Wojtyła
Keywords:
transcendence, Karol Wojtyła, auto-teleology, telos, Person and Act, GodAbstract
A careful examination of Wojtyła’s concept of transcendence of the person in act through auto-teleology; we lay out Wojtyla’s derivation of the notion auto-teleology from self-determination and its connection to various works of Wojtyla such as Person and Act and Man in the Field of Responsibility; in addition we carefully explore Wojtyła’s various meanings of the term “telos” as “kres” and “cel” and discuss various translations such as limit/aim and terminus/end; we then analyze a neglected passage from a revised manuscript concerning the fulfillment of transcendence in the attitudes and relationships of the human person to things, people, and God.
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