TY - JOUR N2 - In the course of his pontifi cate John Paul II delivered over 200 speeches to research workers, students, senates and chancellors of universities on various forums. As the research worker he always cared about the good of the university which he regarded as the masterpiece of culture for the sake of research efforts undertaken by it which include particular aspects of the reality and the didactic and educational activity which serves the entire mankind and the future of the young generation. Indeed John Paul II addressed his speeches, letters and proclamations to Catholic universities but the subjects touched by him have an universal character, that is to say they relate to all universities. In the present study it has been treated of the most important aspects of the activity of the university. First of all the university ought to serve the truth. The pope considers the truth to be the greatest value from which all other values originate and to which they aim; every truth comes from God who is the Highest Truth. John Paul II insists strongly on the ethical dimension of scientific research, especially in the subject of biogenetics and bioethics, since all scientific researches have to serve the good of the man and his development and also the respect of dignity of the human. As according to John Paul II modern universities become more and more dehumanised, therefore he insists on the restitution of their humanistic visage since the man and his good have to be the fundamentals of all knowledge. Two further arguments exposed by the pope refer to the neccessity of interdisciplinary research for the sake of fragmentation of particular scientific areas and their results, as well as the need of their synthesis and high qualifications of the professor’s staff who on the one hand have to deepen their specialistic knowledge and have to be the real authority for the young people. The university not only teaches but also educates. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116907/PDF/Rusecki%20(5).pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116907 PY - 2008 EP - 100 DO - 10.24425/snt.2008.133791 KW - the ethical dimension of scientific research KW - interdisciplinarity KW - the university profesor A1 - Rusecki, Ks. Marian PB - Polskia Akademia Nauk - Komitet Nauk Teologicznych VL - Tom 3 DA - 2008 T1 - The Masterpiece of Culture. The University in the Teachings of John Paul II SP - 79 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116907 T2 - Studia Nauk Teologicznych PAN ER -