Ethics: Love and Responsibility (Post #12)
To begin his formal ethical analysis of love in Love and Responsibility, Karol Wojtyla sets out two fundamental ways through which to consider ethics: experience or virtue. Ethics of Experience:...
View ArticleAffirmation: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #13)
The Inherent Value of the Human Person Karol Wojtyla reminds us in this section of Love and Responsibility that a person has worth beyond any other created thing or object in the world. A person has...
View ArticleChoice and Responsibility: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #14)
A Responsibility for One’s Own Love: This part of Love and Responsibility is perhaps the crux of Wojtyla’s argument in the book—“Choice and Responsibility.” A human person has a “responsibility for...
View ArticleCommitment: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #15)
True knowledge for True Love “Only true knowledge of a person makes it possible to commit one’s freedom to him or her,”[i] Wojtyla writes at the beginning of this section of Love and Responsibility....
View ArticleThe Education of Love: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #16)
Mature Love is Learned: Young people may scoff, Wojtyla notes in this section of Love and Responsibility, at the idea that love must be educated, or learned. But the love that a scoffer is are...
View ArticleThe Resentment of Chastity: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #17)
This whole next section of Love and Responsibility is entitled, “The Rehabilitation of Chastity.” This is a strange title, no? Why would chastity need to be rehabilitated? Did it hurt itself?...
View ArticleCarnal Concupiscence: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #18)
What is Carnal Concupiscence? Wojtyla begins this section on carnal concupiscence (Definition: the tendency toward sin in the area of sexuality) in Love and Responsibility by noting that, in the...
View ArticleSubjectivism and Egoism: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #19)
Choice Determine Love, not Emotions: “Emotion can develop and adapt itself to the shape which a man consciously wills”[i] Wojtyla writes at the beginning of the next section of Love and...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Love: Love and Responsibility Series (Post #20)
Integration of Love: In this section of Love and Responsibility, Wojtyla analyzes what concupiscence is and what it’s not. It’s not a sin, but it is a challenge to the growth of mature love between a...
View ArticleThe True Meaning of Chastity: Love and Responsibility (Post #21)
Note bene: This blog post includes a quote from the newer translation by Grzegorz Ignatik of Love and Responsibility—this translation is more readable and may be in some ways more faithful to the...
View ArticleMade for Love Ep. 60: Accompaniment and Same-Sex Attraction
Fr. Philip Bochanski, Executive Director of Courage International, about accompaniment and same-sex attraction. Then Kara joins us to start our journey through Dr. Edward Sri’s Men, Women, and the...
View ArticleMade for Love Ep. 62: Overcoming Resentment in Marriage
Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak are back for part 2 of our interview on overcoming resentment, this time in marriage. Later, Kara returns to talk about chapters 3-4 of Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love....
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