Wholesale The Splendor of the Good and Intrinsically Evil Acts: THE CORNERSTONE OF KAROL Wojtyìa/POPE JOHN PAUL II'S (1920-2020) ETHICS AND MORAL TEACHINGS: A P - Paperback

by Josef Maria Seifert (Author) This Book, dedicated in memoriam to Pope John Paul II (1920-2020), presents the cornerstone of John Paul II's ethics and magisterial exposition of the moral doctrine of the Church. Permeated by the vision of the splendor, beauty and highest goodness of moral values, Karol Wojtyìa's personalism provides likewise a lucid exposition of the existence of intrinsically evil acts. The present work also extracts from John Paul II's works the unambiguous answer to the questions raised by the famous four "dubia-Cardinals" Intrinsically wrong actions exist and cannot be justified by any situation, consequences, or effects of human actions. That there are such actions is not only a matter of faith, but also result of purely philosophical analysis.The perfect harmony between Socrates, one of the greatest teachers and witnesses of moral truth, and John Paul II/Karol Wojtyìa's ethics and moral teachings, is shown in Chapter 3 of the book. The Socratic insights that (intrinsically) immoral acts must not be committed in any situation and that suffering injustice, torture and death are an incomparably lesser evil for man than committing evil acts, moves the author in view of the identity of this teaching of theirs to call John Paul II "the Socrates among the Popes". Karol Wojtyìa is likewise very close to the methods and ethics of realist phenomenologists and explains in a uniquely fresh way, based on his profound moral experience, the splendor of moral values and the intrinsic evils of contraception, abortion and other assaults against human life and dignity. The philosopher-Pope's ethics and personalism are very close to Saint Edith Stein's, Dietrich von Hildebrand's, John Crosby's and other contemporary thinkers' anthropological and ethical writings and add a fresh and timely tone to timeless truths.The author of the present book was not only personally close to John Paul II (the Pope baptized one of his sons and one of his daughter's life was miraculously saved at his intercession) but also philosophically deeply united with him. Their relation started when Pope John Paul II read Seifert's extensive article about his philosophy and "school" written in 1979, one year after his election to the Papacy. Pope John Paul II invited Seifert to join the faculty of the John Paul II Institute for the Studies of Marriage and the Family (a task Seifert fulfilled as regular visiting Professor during a decade), as a regular member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and as an active member of the working and study group of philosophers and theologians he gathered around himself, prior to publishing his three magisterial ethical Encyclicals Veritatis Splendor, Evangelium Vitae, and Familiaris Consortio.