12. The affirmation of the worth of the testimony
CHAPTER TWO: THE PERSON AND LOVE
III. MORAL ANALYSIS OF LOVE
12. The affirmation of the value of the person
We have said that the commandment of love was a personal rule. We start from the being of the person and come to stop the recognition of particular value. The world of men is a world of objects that distinguish people and things. The person is unlike anything on its structure and its perfection. The structure of his inner person understands about the latest elements of spiritual life, which forces us to recognize the spiritual nature of human soul and the perfection proper to the person. Its value depends on this perfection. The perfection of the individual, and not merely embodied spirit body, no matter how nicely you're encouraged, to be spiritual, not be considered as equals one person and one thing. An unbridgeable gulf separates the animal psyche of man's spirituality.
On the other hand, it clearly distinguish the value of the person and the various values \u200b\u200bin it are , innate or acquired values \u200b\u200binherent in the complex structure of human beings. As we have seen in the course of psychological analysis, these values \u200b\u200bplay a role in the love between man and woman. This love is founded on the impression, which is accompanied by emotion and the object is always a value. In this particular case, it is sexual values, because the origin of love between man and woman is the sexual urge. Sexual values \u200b\u200bare fixed to the subject, is in the person of the opposite sex, either in your body as possible object of enjoyment. There is a difference between the value of the person and sexual values, because they are directed to sensuality or affection of man. The value of the person is bound to be full and not just to sex, since this is not just a peculiarity of his being.
For this, a person values \u200b\u200bare added only secondarily sexual values. From the psychological point of view, love between man and woman is a phenomenon focused on their reactions to these values. The person taking on all aspect of a human being of different sexes, even when you come to consider his own body as an object of pleasure. We know, however, that this human being is a different sex person. It is an intellectual knowledge, conceptual, because neither the person as such, or being as such, are the object of perception. The reaction to the value of the person can not therefore be as straightforward as the reaction to the sexual values \u200b\u200bconnected to the body of a specific person, or, to speak in a more general-the human being from a different sex. The perceived elements act on the emotions of man in different ways the elements discovered by the intellect. Every man is aware that human beings of different sexes is a person who is someone that is different from the thing. Awareness of this fact raises the need for integration of sexual love, requires that sexual and emotional reaction to the man of the opposite sex is raised to the level of the individual.
So, in any situation where we feel the sexual values \u200b\u200bof a person, love requires their integration into the value of the person, their subordination to this value. And this is what the main feature is manifested moral of love: this is an affirmation of the person or not love . When is characterized by a fair attitude towards the value of the individual-called "statement" to such an attitude, love takes its fullness, become integral. On the contrary, love is lacking statement is a non-integrated love, or rather not love, although the reactions and experiences can have a character for "love" (erotic) in the highest degree.
It says in relation especially to the love between man and woman. In the full acceptance of the term. Love is a virtue and not merely a sentiment, still less an excitement of the senses. This virtue is the will and use their spiritual potential resources, ie, which is a real commitment to freedom of the person-subject, founded on the truth that belongs to the person-object . Love as a virtue is guided by the will to the value of the individual. It is, therefore, will the source of this statement that penetrates all the reactions, all that experience, all behavior.
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Love refers to love and affection to the love of concupiscence. Indeed, in the moral order, it is not at all clear or set aside the sexual values \u200b\u200bwhich react to the senses and emotions . It's just link them closely with the value of the person, since that love is directed not only the body, not only to humans of the opposite sex, but precisely to the individual. Moreover, oriented only person love is love. We repeat that only oriented toward the body, is not love, because the desire for pleasure that is manifested in it is radically opposed to love. Love is not love when there is more than an emotional approach for a human being the other sex. As is known, the experience, so deeply rooted in the perception of femininity and masculinity, can fade over time, if not closely linked to the affirmation of the value of the given person.
sexual affectivity constantly evolving amid emotional perceptions of many people. Similarly, the sensual moves through many bodies on the subject aroused the feeling of presence of objects of potential enjoyment. Therefore love can not be based on mere sensuality, or too long in the mere affection. again and in fact pass through the hand of the person, so to speak, hinder his claim or at least not reach it. So, despite the emotional love seems to bring both to humans. And yet, this love, even closer, "the man", can easily pass by "the person." Still return to this point in Chapter III. life experience teaches that love is born especially emotional beings endowed with a certain psychic structure, the only contact with the phenomenon 'human being', provided that such a being is sufficiently loaded with femininity or masculinity. But we also see that by itself has no internal cohesion that mature knowledge gives the whole truth about the person, object of love.
We must affirm the value of the individual, which reflects this truth, find its place among the psychic facts Erotic whose immediate cause is either sensuality, while the man's affection. Thus, emerging assertion is in two directions, indicating generally the main areas of sexual morality. On the one hand, tends to suppress the reactions that have their source in the sensuality and the emotions of man. This issue will be discussed in chapter III ("The person and chastity.") On the other hand, indicates the choice of major life vocation. Indeed, it is usually linked with the entry into the life of a person. It is clear that when a man chooses a woman as a companion of his life, thereby designating the person whose participation in his life is the most important and will print an orientation to their vocation. This approach is most closely linked to the person, can not, therefore, be designed without the affirmation of their value. Discuss this in Chapter IV, especially its second part.
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SOURCE: Book Love and Responsibility. Study of sexual morality. By: Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II). Pp: 132-136. Second edition in Castilian. Edit. Reason and faith, SA Madrid, 1978. (First Polish edition: 1960, Second Edition: 1962)
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