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Carl A. A n d e r s o n , professor, philosopher, lawyer. Bom 1951, Torrington, Connecticut, USA. Studied at Seattle University and the University o f Denver. Since 1988, Dean and Profes
sor o f the Pontificial John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Washington, DC;
1983-1994 Visiting Professor o f Family Law at the Pontificial John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Vatican City State; sińce 1991 member o f the Board o f Directors of the Fellowship o f Catholic Scholars. Since 1987 Vice President for Public Policy, Knights of Columbus, Washington, DC July-September 1987 Acting Director, White House Office o f Public
Liaison, Executive Office o f the President, Washington, DC Since 1990 Commisioner, United States Commission on Civil Rights. Recipient o f the Linacre Award, National Federation of Catholic Physicians’ Guilds (1992). Contributor to several magazines, including Crisis,
Anthropotes, The Human Life Review, Catholic World Report.
Rocco B u t t i g l i o n e , professor, philosopher, lawyer. Bom 1948, Gallipoli, Italy. Studied at the universities o f Rome and Turin. Professor at the University in Teramo; Pro-rector of
Internationale Akademie fu r Philosophie, Liechtenstein. Since 1994 member o f the Papai Acade
my o f the Social Sciences; Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Union. Contributor to several magazines, including: La nuova Europa, II nuovo Areopago, Ale the ia, Ethos. Main fields of research: philosophical anthropology, ethics, the thought of Karol Wojtyła, the philosophy of culture and politics, and law.
Main publications: Diatettica e nostalgia (1978); La crisf deWeconomia marxista (1978);
U pensiero di Karol Wojtyła (1982); Uuomo e il lavoro (1892); Metąfisica della conoscenza e politica (1986); La crisi della morale (1991); Uuomo e la familia (1991); Augusto Del Noce.
Biografia di un pensiero (1991); II problema politico dei cattolici (1993).
Rev. Stanislav Ć e g o v n i k, doctor, philosopher and theologian. Bom 1926, Miess, Mezica, Slovenia. Diocesan vicar (dioc. Gurk) for religous orders, academic pastor for Slovenian students, and headmaster of St. Ursula second ary school in Klagenfurt.
Main fields of interest: Christian Europę, SS. Cyril and Method. Author of papers on pedagogics.
Juan de D i o s V i a l C o r r e a , professor. Born 1925, Santiago, Chile. Studied medicine at Chile University. 1951, scholar at Washinngton University, Saint Louis, USA. Since 1952 professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago de Chile; sińce 1985 its rector.
1975-1977 member o f Sociedad de Biologia de Chile; Sociedad Latinoamericana de Microscopia Electronica, Academia de Ciencias del Instituto de Chile, Academia Lationoamericana de Ciencias, 1982-1983 Chairman o f the Consejo Superior de Ciencia; member o f the Papai Council to Health Care Workers, International Advisory Board o f International Center for Cancer and Development Biology (ICC), 1992-1994 Chairman o f the Asociacion International de Escuelas de Medicina de Universidades Catolicas, 1993 member of the Papai Council for Culture; 1994 Chairman o f the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Author o f La Teoria Cellular en los Origines de la Biologia Moderna (1982), and a number o f papers.
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John C r o s b y, professor, philosopher. Bom 1944, Wahington, DC, USA. Studied philosophy at Georgtown University, USA, and at the University o f Salzburg, Austria. 1970-1987 Professor of philosophy at the University o f Dallas, USA; 1987-1990 the Internationale Akademie fiir Philosophie, Liechtenstein; 1990 - present Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA. Main areas o f research: ethics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy o f religion, thought of J. H. Newman.
Main publications: The Idea o f Value and the Reform o f the Traditional Metaphysics o f Bonum (1978); Essay on Personal Selfhood (forthcoming).
Damian P. F e d o r y k a , professor, philosopher. Bom 1940, Cracow, Poland. Studied philos
ophy at Fordham University, USA, and Salzburg University, Austria. After graduation, lecturer at the universities of Rhode Island and Dallas, and the International Academy of Philosophy, Dallas, USA. Since 1985 president of Christendom College in Front Royal, USA. At present, professor at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and the Bohoslovska Academy in Lvov.
Co-founder and member of Internationale Akademie Jur Philosophiey Liechtenstein. Main fields of research: political sciences, the thought o f Karol Wojtyła, defence of unbom life.
Main publications: Abortion and the Ransom o f the Sacred (1991) and many papers on education, social justice, morality and family in various joumals and periodicals.
Alicja G r z e ś k o w i a k , professor, lawyer. Bom 1941, Świrz near Lvov. Studied at the Faculty o f Law, Mikołaj Kopernik University (UMK), Toruń. 1963-1966 Credit Inspector at the National Bank o f Poland, Toruń branch; sińce 1966 researcher at UMK, sińce 1990, also a research worker o f the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL). 1989 Senator of the Polish Re- public; 1989-1991 Chairperson o f the Constitution Commission of the Polish Senate for the first term o f office o f the Polish Senate; 1991-1993 Vicepresident o f the Polish Senate during second term of office; Vice-chairperson of the Partie Populaire faction of the Parliamentary Political Group (Christian Democrats) of the Parliamentary Assembly o f the Council of Europę; consultant of the Papai Council to the Family; member of the Administration Board of the John Paul II Foundation, member of the Research Board of the John Paul II Institute at KUL; member o f the
Societć International de Defense Sociale; member of the Polish branch of the Association Internationale de Droit Pinal\ member o f the Toruń Leamed Society, and the Leamed Society of Criminal Law. Main fields of research: penology, problems of death sentence, legał and penal defence of human rights (with particular emphasis on the right to live), Christian conception of criminal punishment, juvenile law.
Main publications: Kara pozbawienia wolności względem nieletnich w prawie karnym europejskich państw socjalistycznych (1976); Kara śmierci w polskim prawie karnym (1978);
Postępowanie w sprawach nieletnich (1986); Zagadnienie prawnokarnej ochrony dziecka poczętego w pracach Sejmu i Senatu Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w latach 1990-1991 (1994).
Alphons H o r t e n , entrepreneur, politician. Bom 1907, Metz, Lorraine. Studied at Studium der Land- und Volkswirtschaft at Friedrich Wilhelm Universitat, Berlin. Founder o f the Leamed Board of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU); Co-founder of the Bund der Katholischen Untemehmers, active participant in political life, among others things, as assistant to Chancellor Erhard; 1965-1973 member o f the Bundestag. Author o f several papers on Catholic social thought.
Mieczysław Albert K r ą p i e c, OP, professor, philosopher. Bom 1921, Berezowica Mała, near Zbaraż, Poland. Studied theology and philosophy at the Dominican Collegium in Cracow, and at KUL. Since 1946 philosophy lecturer at the Dominican Collegium in Cracow. 1951 researcher at KUL, 1970-1983 rector of KUL; retired. Member of the Papai Academy of St. Thomas in
Rome, Polish Academy o f Sciences, Academia Scentiarum et Artium Europea. Honorary Doctor
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o f the Pontifical Institute o f Medieval Studies, Toronto, Canada, and the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Recipient o f the Order o f Academic Palms o f the French Academy, and the Belgium Order of Grand Officier Leopold //, among others.
Main fields of research: metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy o f politics, and theory o f cognition.
Main publications: Teoria analogii bytu (1959); Metafizyka (1966, 1978); Ja - człowiek.
Zarys antropologii filozoficznej (1974); Człowiek i prawo naturalne (1975); Język i świat realny
(1985); O rozumienie filozofii (1991); U podstaw rozumienia kultury (1991); O ludzką politykę
(1993) and commentaries to the classical works of metaphysics.
Abp. Kazimierz M a j d a ń s k i , professor, theologian. Bom 1916, Małgów, Poland. Studied at the Theological Seminary in Włocławek and at Freiburg University, Switzerland. During World War II imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, mainly in Dachau. 1950-1963 Lecturer of Morał Theology at the Theological Seminary in Włocławek. Since 1969, Lecturer of Morał and Pastorał Theology at the Academy o f Catholic Theology (ATK), Warsaw. 1975 Founder and director o f the Institute o f Studies of the Family in Warsaw-Łomianki (ATK). 1962 nominated auxiliary
bishop in the Włocławek diocese 1979 ordinary bishop of the Szczecin-Kamień diocese; retired.
Co-founder and long-time chairman o f the Episcopal Commission to the Family Pastorał Care and o f the Episcopal Commission to the Dialogue with Nonbelievers. Member o f the Vatican Secretariat for NonbeIievers, on the Board o f the Papai Council to the Family, and member of the Research Board o f the John Paul II Institute (KUL). Honorary doctor o f the Szczecin Univer- sity.
Main areas o f research: morał theology (with particular emphasis on the problems o f marriage and family), pastorał care of families, maityrology o f priests during World War II.
Main publications: Wspólnota tycia i miłości: zarys teologii małżeństwa i rodziny (1979);
Antropologiczne kategorie trzeźwości (ed., 1980); Rozwój człowieka w rodzinie, vol. 1 (ed., 1982);
Wychowanie do miłości (ed., 1987); Będziecie moimi świadkami (ed., 1987); Teologia małżeństwa i rodziny, vol. 1 (ed., 1980), vol. 2 (ed. 1990).
Jean-Marie M e y e r , professor, philosopher. Bom 1955, Paris. Secondary school philosophy teacher and lecturer in the History o f Modem Philosophy at the Facultć de Philosophie Compa- ree, Paris. Member (together with his wife) o f the Papai Council to the Family. Main areas o f research: bioethics, logie and medieval metaphysics, philosophy of Hegel.
Author o f papers in the above areas, published mainly by the university magazine Cahiers.
Jacek S a l i j , OP, professor, theologian and publicist. Bom 1942, Budy, near Dubno, Volhynia. Studied at the Academy o f Catholic Theology (ATK), Warsaw. Researcher at ATK and the Dominican Philosophico-Theological Collegium, Cracow, member o f the publishing board of Studia Theologica Varsoviensa. Author o f numerous leamed, religious and popular papers, translations and studies on the texts o f St. Thomas Aquinas.
Main publications: Królestwo Boże jest w nas. Wybór artykułów (1980); Szkającym drogi
(1982); Rozmowy ze św. Augustynem (1983); Rozpacz pokonana (1983); Pytania nieobojętne
(1986); Tajemnica Emmanuela dzisiaj (1989); Poszukiwania w wierze (1991).
Rev. Michel S c h o o y a n s , professor, philosopher. Bom 1930. 1959-1969 research worker at the University o f Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since 1964, professor at the Catholic University, Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium. Main areas o f research: theology o f politics, philosophy o f morality.
Author o f many books, including: Destin du Bresil. La technocratie militaire et son idćologie
(1973): Demain, le Bresil (1977); L pavortement: enjeux politiąues (1990); La dłrive totalitaire du liberalisme (1991).
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Josef S e i f e r t , professor, philosopher. Bom 1945, Salzburg, Austria. Studied philosophy in Salzburg and Munich. 1969-1973 researcher at Dallas University, USA. At present rector and professor at the Internationale Akademie fu r Philosophie, Liechtenstein. Editor-in-chief of the philosophical journal Aletheia, the series Studies in Phenomenological and Classical Realism, Akademie-Reden and Philosophie und realistische Phanomenologie. Main areas o f research:
theory of cognition, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and ethics.
Main publications: Erkenntnis objektiver Wahrheit. Die Transzendenz des Menschen in der Erkenntnis (1972); Leib und Seele. Ein Beitrag zur philosophischen Antropologie (1973); Was ist und was motiviert eine sittliche Handlung? (1976); Back to MThings in Themselves”.
A Phenomenological Foundation fo r Classical Realism (1987); Essere e persona. Verso una fondazione fenomenologica di una metafisica classica e personalistica (1989); Schachphilosophie
(1989).
Robert A. S i r i c o, CSP, theologian, pastor, economist, and joumalist. Studied at the Univer- sity of South California, London University, and the Catholic University o f America. After a fifteen-year period o f public activity he founded in 1990 The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Pastor to AIDS sufferers at the National Institute o f Health, Minister for Reconciliation at the Catholic Information Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. His writings have been published in a variety of joumals, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes (for which he is a regular columnist), The Washington Times, First Things, Crisis and The London Financial Times. Member of the Prestige Mont P&Ierin Society, The Mackinac Center in Midland, MI, American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia Society, Michigan Civil Rights Commission. Mem
ber of the Board o f Advisors o f the Civic Institute in Prague. Associated with the Internationale Akademie fiir Philosophie, Liechtenstein. Main areas of research: religion, politics, and economy.
Contributor to many books on religious, economic and social matters, including: Man and Mancism, ed. M. Bauman (Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale College Press, 1992), A Century o f Catholic Social Thought, eds. G. Weigel and R. Royal (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center,
1991); Catholicism’s Developing Social Teaching (Acton Institute 1992).
Tadeusz S t y c z e ń , SDS, professor, philosopher and ethician. Bom 1931, Wołowice, near Cracow, Poland. Studied theology at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, and philosophy at KUL. Since 1963, researcher at KUL. At present, head of the Chair of Ethics, member o f the Research Board of the John Paul II Institute, editor-in-chief of the quarterly Ethos. Professor of the John Paul II Institute o f Studies on Marriage and Family, Lateran University, Rome;
co-founder of the Internationale Akademie fiir Philosophie, Liechtenstein, member of the Societas Ethica, Leamed Society of KUL, Consultant to the Papai Commision to the Family, member of the Steering Committee of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Honorary doctor at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Main areas of research: ethics, meta-ethics, philosophical and
theological anthropology, the thought of John Paul II.
Main publications: Problem możliwości etyki jako empirycznie uprawomocnionej i ogólnie ważnej teorii moralności. Studium metaetyczne (1972); Zarys etyki. Część I: Metaetyka (1974);
Der Streit um den Menschen (coauthor, 1979); Etyka niezależna? (1980); ABC etyki (1981);
W drodze do etyki (1984); Wprowadzenie do etyki (1993); Urodziłeś się, by kochać (1993);
Solidarność wyzwala (1993).
Andrzej S z o s t e k , MIC, professor, ethician. Bom 1945, Grudziądz, Poland. Studied philoso
phy and theology at KUL. Since 1971 researcher at KUL, sińce 1992 Vicerector, sińce 1993 professor of Applied Ethics. Deputy head and member o f the Research Board of the John Paul II Institute at KUL; member of the Internationale Akademie fiir Philosophie, Liechtenstein, International Theological Commission and the Leamed Society of KUL. Member of the editorial
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board o f the quarterly Ethos. Main areas o f research: ethics, meta-ethics, and the thought of Karol Wojtyła.
Main publications: Der Streit um den Menschen (coauthor, 1979), Normy i wyjątki (1979);
Sein und Handeln in Christus (coauthor, 1986); Natura, rozum, wolność (1989, 1990; German edition: Natur-Vemunft-Freiheit, 1992); Pogadanki z etyki (1993).
Wolfgang W a l d s t e i n , professor, lawyer. Bom 1928, Hango, Finland. Studied law at the University o f Innsbruck, Austria. After graduation, researcher at Insbruck. 1965 professor at the University o f Salzburg, Austria; in the years 1968-69 rector at Salzburg; retired 1992. Member o f the Internationale Vereinigung fu r Rechtsphilosphie, Ósterreichische Juristenkommision,
Deutscher Rechtshistorikertag. Honorary doctor at the University o f Miskolc, Hungary; awarded the Silver and Gold Cross o f Merit of the Austrian Republic, Gold Cross of Merit of the Land
Salzburg, and the Leopold Kunschak award. Main areas o f research: Roman law, history of Roman legał sciences, human rights, and the philosophy of law.
Main publications: Untersuchungen zum rómischen Begnadigungsrecht (1964); Romische Rechtsgeschichte (1976); Das Menschenrecht zum Leben (1982); Operae libertorum. Unter
suchungen zur Dienstpflicht freigelassener Sklaven (1986).
Rev. Stanisław W i e l g u s , professor, historian of philosophy. Bom 1939, Wierzchowiska, near Janów Lubelski, Poland. Studied theology and philosophy at KUL; also studied philosophy at Munich University. Since 1969, researcher at KUL. At present, professor o f the History of Philosophy in Poland at the Interfaculty Institute of the History of Culture in the Middle Ages and Interfaculty o f Lexicographic Institute. 1988-1989 vicerector, and sińce 1989 rector of
KUL. 1990-1993 vicepresident o f the Conference o f Rectors o f Polish Universities, 1992-1993 Chairman o f the Collegium o f Rectors of the Lublin Region. Member of Socićtć Internationale pour UEtude de la Philosophie Medievale, Associazione degli Storici Europei, Polish Philosophi
cal Society, Learned Society o f KUL (General Secretary 1985-1988), Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europea, Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum, and the Lublin Learned Society. Recipient of the Ministry of National Education Award for his achievements in running a university. Main areas of research: history o f medieval philosophy (especially Polish), and the natural sciences, medieval theology and law.
Author of numerous treatises, critical editions and papers.
Mirosława Chuda
Translated by Jan Kłos
