Ethics as Fidelity to Experience

Rocco BUTTIGLIONE

Camera dei Diputati, via della Missione 8, 00186 Rome , Italy

Patrycja MIKULSKA

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

Abstract

The author explores Fr. Tadeusz Styczeń’s concept of ethics as an autonomous discipline based on moral experience as its specific starting point. Following Styczeń, he focuses on the demonstration of the possibility of creating ethics that would be, on the one hand, centred on the human person as a subject, and on the other hand – objective. Placing Styczeń’s ideas, inspired by Karol Wojtyła, in the context of the history of philosophy, he presents the so conceived of objective ethics of the person as a solution to the fundamental dilemmas of modern and contemporary thought.

 

Summarized by Patrycja Mikulska

Keywords:

Tadeusz Styczeń, Karol Wojtyła, concept of ethics, autonomous ethics, objective ethics, moral experience, subjectivity