Open AccessWojtyła on Persons and Consciousness
Author(s) -
Grzegorz Holub
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2014.1901.03
Subject(s) - consciousness , intentionality , subject (documents) , psychology , character (mathematics) , power (physics) , artificial consciousness , epistemology , level of consciousness , cognitive science , philosophy , computer science , psychotherapist , neuroscience , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , library science
Karol Wojtyła developed an interesting model of human consciousness. He also demonstrated how vital the role is that consciousness plays in the process of becoming a person. His project encompasses such theses as the following: that consciousness is not a semi-autonomous subject, that it is not an intentional power, that it has both a receptive and an experiencing / interiorizing character, and that it must be distinguished from knowledge and self-knowledge. In this paper, I try to show how all these claims fit together. I also examine some of his more controversial theses—especially his claim about the non-intentionality of consciousness.