The Experience of Shame: Towards a Personalist Ethics

Jarosław MERECKI

Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican , Italy

Patrycja MIKULSKA

John Paul II Institute, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin , Poland

Abstract

The first part of the article describes 'the phenomenological hermeneutics of the beginning,' i.e, the method that has made possible the description and analysis of the aspects of human experience that lay beyond the limits of the historical experience of man, included in John Paul II’s catecheses on love and marriage (Man and Woman He Created Them). Part two presents the application of the method in question in the analysis of the experience of shame, by discussing John Paul II’s ideas against the background of such thinkers as Vladimir Solovyov and Max Scheler.

Summarized by Patrycja Mikulska

 

The present article is a Polish translation of two excerpts from a book by Jarosław Merecki, SDS, Corpo e trascendenza. L’antropologia filosofica nella teologia del corpo di Giovanni Paolo II (Siena: Cantagalli, 2015), 5–10, 107–116).

Keywords:

Karol Wojtyła, John Paul II, personalism, phenomenological hermeneutics of the beginning, Man and Woman He Created Them, experience, shame, Vladimir Solovyov, Max Scheler