Reflection on the Meaning of Humanum as Wojtyla’s Answer to the Challenge of Technological Age
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This article seeks to show the importance of Wojtyla’s reflection on man as his answer to the question of technological mentality. While technological thought weakens or even eliminates the link between ethics and anthropology, Wojtyla’s approach to moral issues essentially relates them. A critical analysis of Wojtyla’s texts will show that at stake in deciding whether to weaken or eliminate this connection o is the very idea of humanity.
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humanity, technology, ethics, anthropology, contraceptionReferences
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Łukasz DudaThe Catholic Academy in Warsaw, Poland Poland
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3087-349X
Łukasz Duda S.T.D. - assistant professor at the Catholic Academy in Warsaw (3 Dewajtis Street, 01-815 Warsaw, Poland), graduate of the University of Navarra and the JP2 Institute in Washington, DC; research interests : bioethics, theology of the body, sacrament of marriage, theory of human action (e-mail: lduda@akademiakatolicka.pl).
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