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Originally published in Polish in 1960, Love and Responsibility is Karol Wojtyła’s groundbreaking book on human love which explains relationships between persons—especially concerning sexual ethics—in the context of human dignity. This new translation of John Paul II’s classic work uses the 2001 version of the text published in Polish, which includes revisions to the original 1960 edition made...

The whole previous reflection on the first meaning of the verb “to use” gives us only a negative solution to the problem of the proper relation to the person. The person may not be either exclusively or first and foremost an object of use, because the role of a blind tool or a means to an end intended by another subject is contrary to the nature of the person. In turn, when we seek a positive solution to the same problem, then love appears—but only, so to speak, at
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