The Catholic University of America Press is honored to announce the publication of the first volume of the critical English edition of The Collected Works of Karol Wojty?a/John Paul II. In conjunction with an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise 20 volumes, covering all of his writings and correspondence both in the years before and during his papacy.What makes this collection so important is that access to his writings have been a significant challenge. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, his works have been scattered and limited, or in need of a new translation. Finally, English-language audiences have faced the challenge, even in the case of published texts, of working across multiple languages and translations and of dealing with textual idiosyncrasies.The inaugural volume of this collection is Person and Act, together with related essays, which is in many respects constitutes Karol Wojty?a’s most profound and well-known philosophical work. Originally published in 1969 as Osoba i czyn, this work of metaphysics and philosophy is widely influential even though it is highly challenging intellectually and has heretofore posed difficulties for translators.

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojty?a/John Paul II. Under the auspices of an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise more than 20 volumes, covering all of John Paul's writings and correspondence in the years before and during his papacy.This collection is essential for several reasons. First, gaining access to the saint's writings has posed significant challenges. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, St. John Paul's works have been published in a large number of different venues, often with limited dissemination. Many documents need a new translation. In addition, English-language audiences have faced the challenge—even in the case of published texts—of dealing with several languages, various translations, and textual idiosyncrasies.The second volume of the series presents Wojty?a's lectures at the Catholic University of Lublin and his works on Max Scheler. This volume consists of three parts: Karol Wojty?a's lectures at the Lublin University from 1954 to 1957 (during three academic years); Wojty?a's articles related to the ethical issues discussed in the Lublin lectures; and his habilitation thesis on Max Scheler, from 1953, with other essays related more closely to Scheler's thought.As was the case with Volume 1, Volume 2 also relies on the original manuscripts and typescripts of Wojty?a's works. These original texts were compared with the Polish published editions, and all significant differences between them have been marked in the scholarly apparatus. Some of the essays in this volume have never been previously published in English, while some others have never been published before.

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. Prepared under the auspices of the John Paul II Institute in Washington DC, the English Critical Edition will comprise more than 20 volumes, covering all of John Paul II’s writings in the years before his papacy and a thematic selection of his papal writings.The third volume of the series presents various ethical and anthropological works by Karol Wojtyła. In addition to multiple essays, this volume features his larger works such as Ethics: Its Concept and Methodology, A Primer of Ethics, Considerations on the Essence of Man, and On the Knowability and Knowledge of God. It also contains Wojtyła’s reviews of books, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations, written chiefly while he lectured at the Catholic University of Lublin.As was the case with previous volumes, Volume 3 also relies on the original manuscripts and typescripts of Wojtyła’s works. These original texts were compared with the Polish published editions, and all significant differences between them have been marked in the scholarly apparatus. Some of the essays in this volume have not been previously published in English, while some others have never been published before.

En los dos textos inéditos que conforman esta obra, el entonces arzobispo de Cracovia, Karol Wojtyla, lleva a cabo un sugerente acercamiento a la cuestión del amor humano desde las perspectivas antropológica, teológica y pedagógica. Ambas intervenciones son, además, un extraordinario testimonio del compromiso que Wojtyla había adquirido en el campo de la educación de los jóvenes en el amor, ya que ambas se encuentran explícitamente dirigidas a los estudiantes universitarios, con los que siempre tuvo una especial vinculación.¿Qué es el amor? ¿Cómo lo encontramos en la propia experiencia? ¿Cómo nos afecta y hacia dónde apunta? Las enseñanzas de Wojtyla constituyen una luz para penetrar en los entresijos de estas cuestiones porque, como él mismo dijo siendo Papa, "el amor no es una cosa que se aprenda, ¡y sin embargo no hay nada que sea más necesario enseñar!".

Originally entitled Osoba i Czyn and published in Poland in 1969, TheActing Person is the official English translation and has been thoroughly edited and revised with the collaboration of the author. The book stresses that Man must ceaselessly unravel his mysteries and strive for a new and more mature expression of his nature. The author sees this expression as an emphasis on the significance of the individual living in community and on the person in the process of performing an action. The author states in his preface that he has tried to face the major issues concerning life, nature, and the existence of Man directly as they present themselves to Man in his struggles to survive while maintaining the dignity of a human being, but who is torn apart between his all too limited condition and his highest aspirations to set himself free. The author hopes that his book "contributes to this disentangling of the conflicting issues facing Man, which are crucial for Man’s own clarification of his existence and direction of his conduct".The author’s analysis of the human being is a dynamic counter to the materialistic and positivistic tendencies in various schools of modern philosophy. Ever since Descartes, the knowledge of Man and his world has been identified through cognition. This book is a reversal of the post-Cartesian attitude toward Man in that it characterises him as the person in action. Audience: The Acting Person will be of great interest to philosophers, anthropologists, and scholars specializing in phenomenology. It will also be of deep concern to theologians, priests, seminarians, and members of religious orders who wish to gain an insight into Pope John Paul II’s philosophy of life.

Föreliggande bok innehåller texten till de reflektioner som nuvarande påven Johannes Paulus II, dåvarande kardinal Karol Wojtyla, i mars 1976 framlade för påven Paulus VI och påvekurian i Rom som underlag för de i Vatikanen årligen återkommande fasteexercitierna. Med flit har ordet "reflektioner" använts här. Boken visar nämligen vilka djup av teologiska insikter författaren nått under sin livslånga begrundan över den kristna läran. Detta bekräftas också av hans övriga skrifter såväl före som efter påvetronstillträdet. Denna tankemognad omfattar alla områden. Boken behandlar både troslärans alla viktiga punkter och praktiska livsfrågor såväl som liturgiska handlingar och särskilda andaktsövningar som korsvägen och rosenkransen. Den kan utan vidare betecknas som ett synnerligen systematiskt uppbyggt kompendium i den kristna läran. Den personinriktade aspekt som författaren anlägger på alla behandlade frågor är ett starkt framträdande särdrag hos författaren. Samtidigt är han angelägen om att på alla sätt främja de mellanpersonliga relationerna vilka bland annat spelar en väsentlig roll i äktenskaps-, familje- och samhällslivet. Denna syn på människan och medmänniskan gör att hans tanke byggnad ed rätta kan kännetecknas som en kristne humanism och en kristen existentialism fylld av en stor och välgrundad optimism.

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to announce the publication of the first volume of the critical English edition of The Collected Works of Karol Wojty?a/John Paul II. In conjunction with an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise 20 volumes, covering all of his writings and correspondence both in the years before and during his papacy.What makes this collection so important is that access to his writings have been a significant challenge. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, his works have been scattered and limited, or in need of a new translation. Finally, English-language audiences have faced the challenge, even in the case of published texts, of working across multiple languages and translations and of dealing with textual idiosyncrasies.The inaugural volume of this collection is Person and Act, together with related essays, which is in many respects constitutes Karol Wojty?a’s most profound and well-known philosophical work. Originally published in 1969 as Osoba i czyn, this work of metaphysics and philosophy is widely influential even though it is highly challenging intellectually and has heretofore posed difficulties for translators.

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojty?a/John Paul II. Under the auspices of an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise more than 20 volumes, covering all of John Paul's writings and correspondence in the years before and during his papacy.This collection is essential for several reasons. First, gaining access to the saint's writings has posed significant challenges. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, St. John Paul's works have been published in a large number of different venues, often with limited dissemination. Many documents need a new translation. In addition, English-language audiences have faced the challenge—even in the case of published texts—of dealing with several languages, various translations, and textual idiosyncrasies.The second volume of the series presents Wojty?a's lectures at the Catholic University of Lublin and his works on Max Scheler. This volume consists of three parts: Karol Wojty?a's lectures at the Lublin University from 1954 to 1957 (during three academic years); Wojty?a's articles related to the ethical issues discussed in the Lublin lectures; and his habilitation thesis on Max Scheler, from 1953, with other essays related more closely to Scheler's thought.As was the case with Volume 1, Volume 2 also relies on the original manuscripts and typescripts of Wojty?a's works. These original texts were compared with the Polish published editions, and all significant differences between them have been marked in the scholarly apparatus. Some of the essays in this volume have never been previously published in English, while some others have never been published before.

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. Prepared under the auspices of the John Paul II Institute in Washington DC, the English Critical Edition will comprise more than 20 volumes, covering all of John Paul II’s writings in the years before his papacy and a thematic selection of his papal writings.The third volume of the series presents various ethical and anthropological works by Karol Wojtyła. In addition to multiple essays, this volume features his larger works such as Ethics: Its Concept and Methodology, A Primer of Ethics, Considerations on the Essence of Man, and On the Knowability and Knowledge of God. It also contains Wojtyła’s reviews of books, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations, written chiefly while he lectured at the Catholic University of Lublin.As was the case with previous volumes, Volume 3 also relies on the original manuscripts and typescripts of Wojtyła’s works. These original texts were compared with the Polish published editions, and all significant differences between them have been marked in the scholarly apparatus. Some of the essays in this volume have not been previously published in English, while some others have never been published before.

En los dos textos inéditos que conforman esta obra, el entonces arzobispo de Cracovia, Karol Wojtyla, lleva a cabo un sugerente acercamiento a la cuestión del amor humano desde las perspectivas antropológica, teológica y pedagógica. Ambas intervenciones son, además, un extraordinario testimonio del compromiso que Wojtyla había adquirido en el campo de la educación de los jóvenes en el amor, ya que ambas se encuentran explícitamente dirigidas a los estudiantes universitarios, con los que siempre tuvo una especial vinculación.¿Qué es el amor? ¿Cómo lo encontramos en la propia experiencia? ¿Cómo nos afecta y hacia dónde apunta? Las enseñanzas de Wojtyla constituyen una luz para penetrar en los entresijos de estas cuestiones porque, como él mismo dijo siendo Papa, "el amor no es una cosa que se aprenda, ¡y sin embargo no hay nada que sea más necesario enseñar!".

Originally entitled Osoba i Czyn and published in Poland in 1969, TheActing Person is the official English translation and has been thoroughly edited and revised with the collaboration of the author. The book stresses that Man must ceaselessly unravel his mysteries and strive for a new and more mature expression of his nature. The author sees this expression as an emphasis on the significance of the individual living in community and on the person in the process of performing an action. The author states in his preface that he has tried to face the major issues concerning life, nature, and the existence of Man directly as they present themselves to Man in his struggles to survive while maintaining the dignity of a human being, but who is torn apart between his all too limited condition and his highest aspirations to set himself free. The author hopes that his book "contributes to this disentangling of the conflicting issues facing Man, which are crucial for Man’s own clarification of his existence and direction of his conduct".The author’s analysis of the human being is a dynamic counter to the materialistic and positivistic tendencies in various schools of modern philosophy. Ever since Descartes, the knowledge of Man and his world has been identified through cognition. This book is a reversal of the post-Cartesian attitude toward Man in that it characterises him as the person in action. Audience: The Acting Person will be of great interest to philosophers, anthropologists, and scholars specializing in phenomenology. It will also be of deep concern to theologians, priests, seminarians, and members of religious orders who wish to gain an insight into Pope John Paul II’s philosophy of life.

Föreliggande bok innehåller texten till de reflektioner som nuvarande påven Johannes Paulus II, dåvarande kardinal Karol Wojtyla, i mars 1976 framlade för påven Paulus VI och påvekurian i Rom som underlag för de i Vatikanen årligen återkommande fasteexercitierna. Med flit har ordet "reflektioner" använts här. Boken visar nämligen vilka djup av teologiska insikter författaren nått under sin livslånga begrundan över den kristna läran. Detta bekräftas också av hans övriga skrifter såväl före som efter påvetronstillträdet. Denna tankemognad omfattar alla områden. Boken behandlar både troslärans alla viktiga punkter och praktiska livsfrågor såväl som liturgiska handlingar och särskilda andaktsövningar som korsvägen och rosenkransen. Den kan utan vidare betecknas som ett synnerligen systematiskt uppbyggt kompendium i den kristna läran. Den personinriktade aspekt som författaren anlägger på alla behandlade frågor är ett starkt framträdande särdrag hos författaren. Samtidigt är han angelägen om att på alla sätt främja de mellanpersonliga relationerna vilka bland annat spelar en väsentlig roll i äktenskaps-, familje- och samhällslivet. Denna syn på människan och medmänniskan gör att hans tanke byggnad ed rätta kan kännetecknas som en kristne humanism och en kristen existentialism fylld av en stor och välgrundad optimism.