Original scientific paper
Personalism of Emmanuel Mounter and its reflections on the Second Vatican Council
Stipe Tadić
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Abstract
The first part of the article presents the philosophy of Emmanuel Mounier, the principal founder of Christian personalism and of the personalist movement in Prance. His whole work is based on the human person and its commitment to historical reality and concrete space. The central preoccupation of personalism is the relationship between the human person and society. According to Mounier, the human person is a spiritual reality attracted towards spiritual and eternal values. However, since at the same time it is the embodied essence, it is called to social commitment and personal responsibility.
The second part of the text shows some reflections on Mounier's thought on the Second Vatican Council, like his ideas on the dialogue between the people of different philosophical, political and religious orientation, on the dignity of human person and the freedom of its moral consciousness, the autonomy of social and political spheres, and on the relationship of Christians with the modern world. With Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier was a true predecessor of further affirmation and development of these ideas.
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85058
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Publication date:
30.12.2003.
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