Karol Wojtyla: the beginning of a calling to search for the truth of man

Abstract

The constant return of Karol Wojtyla to the study of man and the defense of human dignity are not made by chance or mere interest of the thinker; but are the result of the experience of the phenomenon of totalitarianism during the course of World War II. Karol Wojtyla suffered all the contempt of Nazi barbarism and the subsequent arrival of communism to his country. These “evil ideologies” as he called them, evidence the true radical nature of evil, forgetting the other and a systematic rejection for human life. This article is a description of the exercise of power and domination executed by Adolf Hitler, specifically in Poland, during the transition of the war in that country, birthplace of Pope Wojtyla. The object of study is the understanding, in terms of causality, of the thought of Karol Wojtyla: personalism and Christian humanism; The words “totalitarianism”, “geopolitics”, “personalism” and the figure of Hitler are essential in that order of ideas. Thinkers do not grow alone; their temperament is the result of the context in which they lived. In this analysis, for a better understanding, there are references to authors as Hannah Arendt and Joan Carles Mélich, who have expanded the horizon of understanding about this phenomenon.