Karol Wojtyla
The Acting Person
INTRODUCTION
1. The Experience of Man
2. Cognition of the Person Rests on the Experience of Man
3. The Stages of Comprehending and the Lines of Interpretation
4. The Conception of Person and Action to Be Presented in This Study
PART ONE: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EFFICACY
CHAPTER ONE: THE ACTING PERSON IN THE ASPECT OF CONSCIOUSNESS
1. The Historical Wealth of the Expression "Human Act"
2. The Attempt to Discern Consciousness in the "Human Act"
3. Consciousness and Self-Knowledge
4. The Twofold Function of Consciousness and the Experience of Subjectiveness
5. The Emotionalization of Consciousness
6. Subjectivity and Subjectivism
CHAPTER TWO: ANALYSIS OF EFFICACY IN THE LIGHT OF HUMAN DYNAMISM
1. The Basic Conceptions and Differentiations of Human Dynamism
2. The Definition of Efficacy
3 The Synthesis of Efficacy and Subjectiveness. The Person as a Basic Ontological Structure
4. The Person and Nature: Their Opposition or Integration?
5. Nature as the Basis for the Dynamic Cohesion of the Person
6. Potentiality and Its Relation to Consciousness
7. The Relation of Potentiality to Consciousness Expressed by Subconsciousness
8. Man in Becoming: The Manifestation of Freedom in the Dynamism of the Man-Subject
PART TWO: THE TRANSCENDENCE OF THE PERSON IN THE ACTION
CHAPTER THREE: THE PERSONAL STRUCTURE OF SELF-DETERMINATION
1. The Fundamentals of the Personal Structure of Self- Determination
2. An Attempt to Interpret the Integral Dynamism of the Will
3. Free Will as the Basis of the Transcendence of the Acting Person
4. The Significance of the Will as the Person's Power of Self-Determination
5. Decision Is the Focus of the Activities of Free Will
6. Responsibility in the Acts of Will - Motivation and Response
7 The Moment of "Truth about Good" as the Basis for the Acting Person's Perception and Transcendence
8. The Cognitive Experience of Values as the Condition of Choice and Decision
9. The Creative Role of Intuition Is Undiminished by the Judgment of Values
CHAPTER FOUR: SELF-DETERMINATION AND FULFILLMENT
l. Performing an Action Brings Personal Fulfillment
2. The Reliance of Self-Fulfillment on the Conscience
3. Conscience Depends on Truthfulness
4. The Obligation to Seek Self-Fulfillment
5. Responsibility
6. Happiness and the Person's Transcendence in the Action
7. The Transcendence of the Person and the Spirituality of Man
8. The Unity and Complexity of the Man-Person
PART THREE: THE INTEGRATION OF THE PERSON IN THE ACTION
CHAPTER FIVE: INTEGRATION AND THE SOMA
1. The Fundamentals of the Person's Integration in Action
2. The Integration in the Action Manifested in Disintegration
3. The Person's Integration in the Action Is the Key to the Understanding of Man's Psychosomatic Unity
4. The Integration and the "Integrity" of Man on the Basis of Interacting Psychosomatic Conditionings
5. The Person and the Body
6. The Self-Determination of the Person and the Reactivity of the Body
7. Action and Motion
8. Instinct and the Person's Integration in the Action
CHAPTER SIX: PERSONAL INTEGRATION AND THE PSYCHE
1. The Psyche and the Som
2. A Characteristic of the Psyche - Emotivity
3. Feelings and Consciousness l~B the Experience of the Body
4. Sensitivity and Truthfulness
5. Desire and Excitement
6. "Stirring Emotions" and Emotivity
7. The Emotivity of the Subject and the Efficacy of the Person
8. The Emotivity of the Subject and the Experience of Value
9. Action and Emotion - The Integrating Function of Skill
10. Conduct and Behavior
11. The Person's Integration in Action and the Soul-Body Relation
PART FOUR: PARTICIPATION
CHAPTER SEVEN: INTERSUBJECTIVITY BY PARTICIPATION
1. Introduction to the Concept of Participation
2. The Personalistic Value of Action
3. A More Detailed Definition of "Participation"
4. Individualism and Anti-Individualism
5. Participation and Community
6. Participation and the Common Good
7. "Authentic" Attitudes
8. "Nonauthentic" Attitudes
9. Fellow Member and Neighbor
10. The Commandment of Love
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