Personalist and conjugal ethics in Karol Wojtyla’s “Love and Responsibility”

Abstract

After 10 years of experience with preparing couples for marriage, the then bishop Karol Wojtyla, whose studies were based on personalism, phenomenology and Thomistic theology, had conceived the idea of ​​creating a book that defended the teachings of the Church Catholic on conjugal love from an ethical and anthropological point of view. Thus, precisely two years after the episcopal consecration of the young Father Wojtyla, the book “Love and Responsibility” was being published in 1960. In this sense, the present article aims to analyze the importance of constructing a vision about men and women based on personalist ethics (as opposed to an ethics based on utilitarian principles) for a correct understanding of the human love and interpersonal relationships in Wojtyla's approach.