Open AccessANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ECONOMIC IN KAROL WOJTYLA'S TEACHINGS
Author(s) -
Mariia Dovhan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
sofìâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2521-6570
DOI - 10.17721/sophia.2021.17.7
Subject(s) - dignity , rationality , morality , sociology , environmental ethics , state (computer science) , nihilism , value (mathematics) , secularism , context (archaeology) , epistemology , law and economics , political science , law , politics , philosophy , algorithm , machine learning , computer science , paleontology , biology
The research provides a systematic analysis of Karol Wojtyla's views on human development in the context of economic development. Karol Wojtyla focuses on the analysis of the economic sphere of society in view of the observance of human rights and the realization of human freedoms, as well as the possibility of developing one's morality.It is substantiated that the current state of the economy leads to a single dimension of a human being, the crisis of identity and the degradation of human values. Given the misinterpretation of a human being in modern economic systems, where it is used as a tool, not an aim, the thinker emphasizes the need for economic transformation.It is established that Karol Wojtyla regards the development of the economy through the prism of the moral priorities of a modern human being. He connects human self-destruction with modern transformations of the scientific and technical sphere, and explains the emergence of nihilism through the crisis of rationality.The paper seeks to analyze the main dangers in the field of economics, due to which the understanding of human value is lost. Simultaneously, it considers the recommendations of Karol Wojtyla on changing this state of affairs. The thinker emphasizes the dignity of every person, because the recognition of a person as the highest value is not only the existence of laws and norms in the state which would guarantee a decent life in the socio-economic sphere, but also meeting national, cultural and spiritual needs.Without the right of private property, according to him, an autonomy and development of a person are inconceivable. Karol Wojtyla considers the formation of a new world economic system based on the principles of justice and equality to be the answer to the problem of a proper place of a human being in economic systems. In contrast to profit as a regulator of the economy, the thinker raises the importance of a human factor in economic development, emphasizes the key role of orderly and creative human labor and its components, namely initiative and entrepreneurship. The lack of knowledge and skills are viewed as reasons which do not allow getting out of poverty.It has been established that, according to Karol Wojtyla, impersonal being is a value and a moral obligation to the subject who is a person.