The philosophical research of K. Wojtyla (1920-2005), who became Pope John Paul II in 1978, focused on the being of the human person (anthropology) and particularly on the study of the person through their acts (ethics). In this way, he emphasizes the dynamism of the human subject, who, due to his ontological constitution, is a person with distinctive characteristics such as: freedom, self-gift, interpersonal relationship, reciprocity, transcendence, and communion. This fundamental metaphysics of the person explains its teleology, directed towards the search for good as a value for oneself and for others through the realization of the two constitutive dimensions of the person: personal and communal. K. Wojtyla’s ethics emerges from an encounter between the philosophy of being of St. Thomas Aquinas and the philosophy of consciousness through the use of the phenomenological method known from E. Husserl, M. Scheler, and E. Stein. From this ontological and ethical research arises the foundation of social and political community. In opposition to the immanentist culture of liberalism and Marxism, K. Wojtyla persistently proposed a humanism open to the Infinite and to otherness in the dual and simultaneous vertical and horizontal relationship. His reflections remain highly relevant and are rich with further insights for the construction of our future