Abstract

Ethics Primer makes an exciting reading which updates an earlier edition of Karol Wojtyła’s moral treatise, That Christ May Make Use of Us. Being a bilingual edition, it appeals to a wider audience as a resource book on the objective principles of moral life and their applications. It also serves as a polemic work against various misunderstandings arising from ethical naturalism or materialism. This means that Wojtyła resorted to the application of general metaphysical principles in order to construct an integral anthropology for ethics. This system testifies to the consideration of metaphysical method of investigation, a kind of method of realistic apprehension as cultivated by the Lublin Philosophical School of which Wojtyła was also a member. This method actually “strives to have ultimate cognition of reality in its essential, necessary, and universal (transcendental) structures.”