Karol Wojtyla

I surround myself with books. I put up

fortifications of art and learning. I work.
Will you believe me when I tell you that
I am almost running out of time? I
read, write, learn, pray and fight within
myself. Sometimes I feel horrible
pressures, sadness, depression, evil.

PRENOTE
Karol Wojtyla (May 18, 1920

April 2, 2005) said that The

human person is a dynamic
specificity that manifests itself
in and through action.
A persons dynamic structure is
in self-governance and selfpossession. Self-possession
means the ability of the person
to control or rule himself while
self-governance is to govern
everything that the person
possesses. A person, in this
case, is both the governor and
the possessor of himself.

The Acting Person

A man by the name of Karol Wojtyla

(May 18, 1920 April 2, 2005), tried

to integrate the very objective
Aristotlean-Boethian-Thomistic sense
of person as the individual substance
of a rational nature and the very
subjective Schelerian conception of
man leaning extremely to subjectivity.
He integrated the components of
Thomistic and Schelerian conception
of man coming up with a new man
which he called an Acting Person.
There is a great difference between
man and person which could only be
elucidated by the former pope, John
Paul II.

The Acting Person

It is not enough to define a man as an
individual of the species Homo (or
even homo sapiens). The term person
has been coined to signify that a man
cannot be wholly contained within the
concept individual member of the
species, but there is something more
to him, a particular richness and
perfection in the manner of his being,
which can only be brought out by the
use of the word person.
- Georg Hunston Williams. The Mind
of John Paul II: Origin of his
Thought and Action, New York, The
Seabury Press, 1981, p. 152