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Karol Wojtyła: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II is unavailable, but you can change that!

The achievements of John Paul II in recent years cannot be overstated. Led by this man and his profound contribution to Catholic social thought, the Catholic Church has become the world’s single greatest voice for democracy and human rights. Protestants, too, have found in Pope John Paul II a brave and steadfast Christian pastor. Few people, however, know the Pope’s background or the philosophy...

In relation to the second point (concerning the “following” of which he speaks), Scheler projects an aesthetic image of following, but this is arbitrary, because he gives no rational grounds for it. The value, in the name of which one follows a master, is actually the value immanent to the master’s ethical experience. This belongs to the master’s ethos, but is not (necessarily) the value which reveals itself to the subject himself.27 Scheler’s idea of following is very close to the Augustinian idea
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