Kontakt 2008, 10(1):178-183 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2008.025

Marriage in the viewpoint of the Walter Kasper's philosophic anthropologyHealth and Social Sciences

Petr Piler^*, Josef Dolista

Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra filozofie a etiky v pomáhajících profesích

The marriage is the most universal form of human relationships. It includes personalities of both partners in all the dimensions.
Man currently searches for new forms of living together and coexistence. The marriage is ever the best form of partner relationships and the family is the best environment for upbringing of the new generation. Just these principal relationships must most frequently step aside due to a career and living standard, or are disintegrated for immaturity and for other reasons. A phenomenon of postponing the maternity is currently very frequent. The number of women, who experience their first maternity after 35 years of their lives increases. Taking of the marriage and experience in life in the marriage became to a certain extent a part of the personality and condition of the "normality".
One of reasons for the marriage crisis is a borderline between private and public spheres. The interest or contents of the family were currently taken over by the state. The families are replaced by social care institutes and lack of financial means is solved by loans and mortgages. Their behaviour is controlled by the family and marriage law.
The currently existing more individual marriage certainly brings a source of support against the increasing emptiness of the world. The dialogue occupies a special position in partner problems, which is provided by listening as well as by the possibility to express his/her standpoint. The incorporation into the legal rules of the country and into a wider circuit of the family helps to achieve an enhanced stability of the marriage and provides a protection against the existing superficial trends in opinions.
The sexuality is of course of importance in the marriage. The partner sexuality must be based on a personal relationship of the deep and maintained friendship. The human sexuality is ever active, which leads to excess sexual stimuli which should be normalized and cultivated. The partners need to find each other in something, which provides their actual ties. The product of mutual love is a child. By delivering and upbringing of children, the husband and wife also help the society, whose survival is dependent on them. This everything must be submitted by a natural human sense of the moral responsibility. Children are the strongest argument for the inseparability of the marriage. The faithfulness belongs to the basic sense of the love. The faithfulness in the marriage is the highest way of the implementation of freedom.

Keywords: marriage; faithfulness; spirituality; sexuality; public; private; moral responsibility

Received: March 17, 2008; Accepted: April 21, 2008; Prepublished online: June 27, 2008; Published: July 27, 2008  Show citation