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Love and Responsibility

By Karol Wojtyła
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Originally published in Polish in 1960, Love and Responsibility is Karol Wojtyla’s groundbreaking book on human love. In this classic work, Wojtyla explains relationships between persons, especially concerning sexual ethics, in the perspective of the true meaning of love. Grzegorz Ignatik, a native Polish speaker, has translated the 2001 version of the text, which includes revisions made by Pope John Paul II himself of the original 1960 edition, providing helpful notes and defining key terms.

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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length15 hrs 16 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 25, 2019
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Dedication Page
2Translator’s Foreword
3Editors’ Introduction to the Polish Edition (1979)
4Author’s Introduction to the First Polish Edition (1960)
5Author’s Introduction to the Second Polish Edition (1962)
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6CHAPTER I The Person and the Drive
7Part One Analysis of the Verb “to use”
8The person as the subject and object of action
9The first meaning of the verb “to use”
10Love as the opposite of “using”
11The second meaning of the verb “to use”
12Critique of utilitarianism
13The commandment to love and the personalistic norm
14Part Two Interpretation of the Drive
15Instinct or drive?
16The sexual drive as a property of the individual
17The sexual drive and existence
18The religious interpretation
19The rigoristic interpretation
20The “libidinistic” interpretation
21Final remarks
22CHAPTER II The Person and Love
23Part One Metaphysical Analysis of Love
24The word “love”
25Love as fondness
26Love as desire
27Love as benevolence
28The problem of reciprocity
29From sympathy to friendship
30Spousal love
31Part Two Psychological Analysis of Love
32Impression and emotion
33Analysis of sensuality
34Affectivity and affective love
35The problem of the integration of love
36Part Three Ethical Analysis of Love
37Lived-experience and virtue
38Affirmation of the value of the person
39The belonging of a person to another person
40Choice and responsibility
41The commitment of freedom
42The problem of the education of love
43CHAPTER III The Person and Chastity
44Part One Rehabilitation of Chastity
45Chastity and resentment
46The concupiscence of the flesh
47Subjectivism and egoism
48The structure of sin
49The full sense of chastity
50Part Two Metaphysics of Shame
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