Acting Person (367p#)

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Summary: Where can I find this book?
Review: Does anyone know where I can find this book? (Personally, I've heard that it is quite Phenomenol.)

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Summary: Where to get this book
Review: Es un libro excelente porque profundiza en lo que es la persona humana a través de su actuación; a la vez que muestra cómo el actuar humano "hace" de alguna manera a la persona. Yo lo he leído en español, y sé que la edición que busco es la que el autor revisó. La busco para estudiarla con mayor detenimiento. Agradeceré cualquier noticia sobre el dónde puedo encontrarlo: soy profesora de Filosofía.

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Review: I am also looking for this book - any ideas

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Summary: Review and comment on the Mexican one
Review: I just wanted to act on the review of the guy from mexico(sorry lost your name).

I have just been reading the Biography of Pope John Paul II also known as Karol Wojtyla. And the English Version of The Acting Person is written by the lady he says together with Karol Wojtyla.Because the orginial edition(polish one was not really finished it where his thougths put on paper with unfinnished sentences). The Vatican has tried to stop the publishing but it is indeed her work together with Karol Wojtyla. Read the biography written by Carl Bernstein(same author of all the presidents man) this book will tell you everything about Pope John Paul II.

There is a part in in wich is explained the new improved version of the Acting Person.

Best Regards Onno

I still hope to read one day the Acting Person.

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Summary: Where to find a copy of the Acting Person
Review: If anyone is interested in finding a copy of The Acting Person, log onto the website address: http://www.i-logic.com/personalism/jp2/actingperson.htm

This book should be read by anyone in academic philosophy. It is a masterpiece yet to be discovered by mainstream american philosophers. It's just too bad that it is not more readily available.

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Summary: Correction to "Where to Get this Book" Posting
Review: The Acting Person is one of the most revolutionary works devoted to anthropology in the 20th century. Three main aspects must be considered in order to understand it properly: 1)It is metaphysicaly based: it means that Karol Wojtyla has a depth understanding of thomistic metaphysics but he uses some of the most important Aquina's insights in order to create a new way to access the essence of the human person, i.e., he uses the dynamic principle of being ("operare sequitur esse") as an hermeneutic principle. Human act reveals person qua person, even more, reveals the irreducible element of the "humanum". 2) It is, methodologically speaking, a phenomenological work. It means Wojtyla continues the tradition of realistic phenomenology ("Back to things themselves!") going back to the most important and interesting thing: human person. 3) "The Acting Person" has its own thematic objectives, however, the work puts the anthropologic foundations of personalistic ethics. It means that "The Acting Person" is not an ethical work, however, it puts the frame in order to understand the personalistic norm of action: "persona est affirmanda propter seipsam". The english version of "The Acting Person" was written without a full revision by the author. Even more, some persons think the book was sent to the print without a true authorization by the author. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, the editor of the english translation, says the opposite. Many important notions (like "esse", "suppositum", etc.) were not properly translated. The italian and the german versions are better. However, there is the new revised and authorized 2nd. polish edition. So the publication of the new english, french,german and spanish edition is imperative. Rodrigo Guerra (Mexico)E-mail: [e-mail]

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Summary: Better Edition of the Acting Person
Review: The Vatican has attempted to halt continued dissemination of the only English edition of The Acting Person with good reason. Apparently, it is not a faithful translation of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II's Polish original. The translator, who is herself a phenomenologist but thinks differently from the author has changed crucial passages of his work. The second Polish edition which has been translated into French and Spanish is apparently accurate, for those who can read those languages. I myself am looking for one of these, preferably Spanish, but have not been able to find one. Two good overviews of Karol Wojtyla's philosophical anthropology can be found in Kenneth Schmitz's At the Center of the Human Drama and Jaroslaw Kupczak's Destined for Liberty.

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Summary: Better Edition of the Acting Person
Review: The Vatican has attempted to halt continued dissemination of the only English edition of The Acting Person with good reason. Apparently, it is not a faithful translation of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II's Polish original. The translator, who is herself a phenomenologist but thinks differently from the author has changed crucial passages of his work. The second Polish edition which has been translated into French and Spanish is apparently accurate, for those who can read those languages. I myself am looking for one of these, preferably Spanish, but have not been able to find one. Two good overviews of Karol Wojtyla's philosophical anthropology can be found in Kenneth Schmitz's At the Center of the Human Drama and Jaroslaw Kupczak's Destined for Liberty.

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Summary: A Scholarly Work for the Ages
Review: This book is perhaps the most significant philosophical work since Cajetan's commentary on the Summa. Working from consciousness as a bridge between (1) the internal person and (2) the person's externally-manifested actions, Wojtyla insightfully demolishes the idealism-empiricism split which led Descartes and countless others into skepticism. The book is also historically significant for two other reasons. First, JPII's condemnation (see Veritatis Splendor) of an entire system of moral theology is based on the thought of this book. Second, the book establishes a philosophical basis for the claims about human dignity made at Vatican II, which Wojtyla was attending when he wrote the book. Finally, since his method is phenomenological, his introspection is pretty much self-evident, and thereby philosophically unassailable.
I have only read the first half of it in the (apparently controversial) English edition, but even that much was unusually insightful. Admittedly, I had to read certain sections about six times to understand his terminology, and to make sure that I wasn't being fooled by a vague translation, but once you see what he is actually saying, the scope and moment of the work becomes apparent.

Rating:
Summary: A Scholarly Work for the Ages
Review: This book is perhaps the most significant philosophical work since Cajetan's commentary on the Summa. Working from consciousness as a bridge between (1) the internal person and (2) the person's externally-manifested actions, Wojtyla insightfully demolishes the idealism-empiricism split which led Descartes and countless others into skepticism. The book is also historically significant for two other reasons. First, JPII's condemnation (see Veritatis Splendor) of an entire system of moral theology is based on the thought of this book. Second, the book establishes a philosophical basis for the claims about human dignity made at Vatican II, which Wojtyla was attending when he wrote the book. Finally, since his method is phenomenological, his introspection is pretty much self-evident, and thereby philosophically unassailable.
I have only read the first half of it in the (apparently controversial) English edition, but even that much was unusually insightful. Admittedly, I had to read certain sections about six times to understand his terminology, and to make sure that I wasn't being fooled by a vague translation, but once you see what he is actually saying, the scope and moment of the work becomes apparent.