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		<title>Karol Wojtyla and Martha Nussbaum on Human Essentials: Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part II: Martha Nussbaum's "Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism" seeks to delineate certain essential human characteristics, with the end of normatively grounding a liberal capabilities polity.  In my view, Karol Wojtyla's "Person and Act" gives strong support in the epistemology of person to her capabilities project.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla and Martha Nussbaum on Human Essentials: Part I</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2012/01/17/karol-wojtyla-and-martha-nussbaum-on-human-essentials-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I: Martha Nussbaum's "Human Functioning and Social Justice: In Defense of Aristotelian Essentialism" seeks to delineate certain essential human characteristics, with the end of normatively grounding a liberal capabilities polity.  In my view, Karol Wojtyla's "Person and Act" gives strong support in the epistemology of person to her capabilities project.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla&#8217;s Person and Act and Post-foundationalist Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karol Wojtyla's <i>Person and Act</i> seems the best approach I have personally found to understand the world after a post-foundationalist collapse.  Any certainty that I have does not derive from my ability to reduce the world to the scope of my theories, whether scientific or theological, but from truths which I re-cognize outside myself, toward which I reach beyond myself.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: Introduction, part four: the person as transcendent yet integrated agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the final section of the introduction Wojtyla outlines the stages of phenomenological analysis of the person as a transcendent yet integrated agent.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: part three: stages of comprehension</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/09/27/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-introduction-part-three-stages-of-comprehension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the third section of the introduction to <i>Person and Act Wojtyla considers induction and reduction as practical methodologies in developing a theory of the person.</i>]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: part two, the understanding of &#8220;person&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/09/06/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-part-two-the-understanding-of-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second half of the second section of the introduction to Person and Act, Wojtyla considers that the intellectual vision of the person formed in the observation of acts derives not only from the acts themselves, but also from the moral value of those acts]]></description>
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		<title>Un contrasto tra Wojtyla e Lévinas sul rapporto con l&#8217;altro</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/30/un-contrasto-tra-wojtyla-e-levinas-sul-rapporto-con-laltro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Un constrasto tra Wojtyla e Lévinas sul rapporto etico simmetrico / asimmetrico con l'altro che potrebbe portare ad esiti diversi.]]></description>
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		<title>Tadeus Styczen: Being Oneself and Transcending Oneself</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/23/tadeus-styczen-being-oneself-and-transcending-oneself/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/23/tadeus-styczen-being-oneself-and-transcending-oneself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I myself when, by an act of free choice, I deny the truth that I have established as such, having ascertained it as an eyewitness?]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: the understanding of &#8220;person&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/20/karol-wojtyla-person-and-act-the-understanding-of-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Wojtyla, the act reveals the person; his will be a study of the act as revealing the person, a phenomenology of the person by means of his or her actions.]]></description>
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		<title>Karol Wojtyla, Person and Act: the &#8220;experience of the human&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/17/karol-wojtyla-what-is-a-person/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbrennen.com/2009/08/17/karol-wojtyla-what-is-a-person/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Introduction to "Person and Act", Karol Wojtyla offers an intriguing phenomenological perspective on experiencing oneself and others as human.]]></description>
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