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. "
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