Karol Wojtyła’s Concept of Personal Transcendence

The article presents the understanding of transcendence person in Wojtyła’s phi­losophy. text discusses turn: role experience person; concept transcend­ence relation to other concepts used by Wojtyła; reference truth as basis personal transcendence; integration existence. analyses conducted show that proper sense reveals spiritual dimension his existence being superior material dimension. presented draws atten­tion richness threads showing action on an anal­ysis lived experience. This approach not only illuminates or from another side traditional transcendence, based essential distinction between and nature, but also adds new revealing aspects it. autonomous subjectivity freely determines himself/herself, moreover transcends humanity a general human nature – virtue indi­vidual, unique As crowning achievement person, metaphysical aspect anthropology, which is strongly present thought, proposed here, somewhat treatment topic transcendence. According this approach, experienced its deeper level: existence, deepest foundation person.