PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF THE POPE PRESENTED TODAY

VATICAN CITY, OCT 13, 2003 (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press Office, there was a presentation of the book "Metafisica della persona. Tutte le opere filosofiche e saggi integrativi di Karol Wotyla (Metaphysics of the person. All the philosophical and integrative essays of Karol Wojtyla), published by Bompiani. Professors Giovanni Reale and Tadeusz Styczen, who contributed to the edition, and philosopher Rocco Buttiglione participated in the presentation.

In this 1,600-page volume, all of Karol Wojtyla's philosophical essays, written between 1948 (when he got his licentiate in theology at the Angelicum in Rome) and 1978 (the year of his election to the pontificate), have been collected for the first time ever. The most important writings were published during the years in which he taught at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. "The doctrine of the faith in St. John of the Cross (1948); "Evaluations on the possibility of building up the Christian ethic on the foundations of the system of Max Scheler (1954); "Love and Responsibility" (1960); "Person and act" (1969), and "Man and responsibility" (1978). In addition, ten integrative essays written between 1974 and 1978 are included in this work.

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