Before he was elected Pope in 1978, Karol Wojtyła was a professor of ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin. He spent years hiking, camping, and counseling young adults and married couples. These real-world conversations about love, marriage, and sexual attraction heavily influenced his academic writing.
The highest form of love Wojtyła describes is . This is the total, radical self-giving of one person to another. In betrothed love, an individual limits their own freedom to create a lifelong union with their spouse. It is the complete surrender of the "I" to create a "We." The Problem of Utilitarianism in Relationships love and responsibility john paul ii pdf