Man in the Field of Responsibility

Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) was Bishop of Cracow when he wrote this long précis to a work in philosophical ethics he was to write with Tadeusz Styczen. Fr. Styczen never finished his part, so this work, the last work of philosophy that Wojtyla, who was soon to be elected Pope, would ever do.

• Introduction to this Edition by Fr. Alfred WierzbickiAuthor's IntroductionPart I. Morality as the Field Proper to Ethics1. The Problem of the Experience of Morality2. Experience and understanding3. From a Pre-scientific to a Philosophical Understanding4. Understanding and Interpretation5. The Debate about the Interpretation of Morality6. The Interpretation of Morality as the Uncovering of its AspectsPart II. The Normativity of Ethics & the Responsibility of the Person1. The Understanding of Morality and the Questions of Ethics2. The World of Norms—Their Analogical Character3. An Attempt at a Closer Determination of Moral Norms4. Utilitarianism: Is it only a debate about the foundations of the norms of morality?5. Utilitarianism & Teleology6. Norms as Truths about Goodness7. Norms and Exemplarism8. Ethics—A Normative Science or a Practical One?Part III. The Natural Law & Personalist Norms1. The Full Profile of Ethics2. The Limits of a Practical Science3. The Limits of a Normative Science