%0 Book %A Grzegorz Hołub %D 2021 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 2192-1857 %@ 9783631857014 %T Understanding the Person %B Essays on the Personalism of Karol Wojtyła %R 10.3726/b18557 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063450 %X The book deals with the philosophy of the human person as worked out by Karol Wojtyła. It presents a number of fundamental issues necessary to understand Karol Wojtyła’s personalism. Thus, first it undertakes Wojtyła’s move from the philosophy of the human being to the philosophy of the human person; second, it presents Wojtyła’s epistemological approach to the person against the background of other philosophies concerned with the human person; third, it describes the metaphysical structure of the person; four, it analyses the person’s selected faculties (consciousness, emotions); five, it presents some aspects of the action of the person (a person’s causation, or their role in dialogue); and finally, it tries to sketch the problem of personal dignity. %K the human person, Karol Wojtyła, personalism, Thomistic and phenomenological anthropology, continental philosophy %G English