The highly anticipated publication of Karol Wojtyła’s Katolicka etyka społeczna (KES) in 2018 provides a novel and important basis for understanding the economic thinking of Pope John Paul II. The text is comprised of Wojtyła’s extensive lecture notes from the 1950s on the topic of Catholic social teaching and spans almost 500 pages. KES illustrates the future pope’s deep concern for economic justice as a young priest and his ambivalence towards capitalism, which persisted throughout his papacy. Given the size of KES, this article selectively focuses on Wojtyła’s treatment of topics of continuing relevance: the right of the Church to pronounce on economic matters; private property and the “social mortgage” on it; inequality, the just distribution of resources, and the “option for the poor”; the moral assessment of capitalism and Marxism; the dignity of labor and workers’ rights; and the role of conflict in promoting the common good. I contend that KES is consonant with the later papal teaching of John Paul II on economic justice and that it provides a hermeneutic key to understanding it. Furthermore, I argue that the “radicalism” of Karol Wojtyła on matters of economic justice in KES coheres with papal social teaching from Pope Paul VI through that of Pope Francis.

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KarolWojtyła的Katolicka EtykaSpołeczna作为教宗若望保禄二世经济教学的前奏和解释学钥匙

KarolWojtyła的Katolicka etykaspołeczna（KES）在2018年备受期待的出版物为理解教宗若望保禄二世的经济思想提供了新颖而重要的基础。该文本包含19世纪50年代Wojtyła关于天主教社会教学的广泛演讲笔记，涵盖近500页。KES说明了这位未来的教皇作为一个年轻的牧师对经济正义的深切关注，以及他对资本主义的矛盾态度，这种矛盾情绪贯穿了他的整个教皇时期。给定KES的大小，本文选择性地关注Wojtyła对持续相关主题的处理：教会对经济事务发表意见的权利；私有财产及其上的“社会抵押”；不平等，资源的公平分配以及“穷人的选择”；对资本主义和马克思主义的道德评价；劳动和工人权利的尊严；以及冲突在促进共同利益方面的作用。我认为，KES与后来的约翰·保罗二世关于经济正义的教皇教义相辅相成，并且为理解它提供了解释学上的关键。此外，我认为，卡洛斯·沃伊兹拉（KarolWojtyła）在KES中对经济正义问题的“激进主义”与教宗保罗六世至弗朗西斯教皇的教皇社会教义相吻合。