The paper reconstructs Karol Wojtyła’s criticism of Max Scheler’s concept of a person, consciousness, and ethical experience. As underlined by Wojtyła, in the ethics of Scheler the concepts of consciousness and existence of a person are treated separately and the ethical experience is reduced to emotional experience of values. In addition, in the proposals of Scheler the personal agency which allows one to act, the normative functioning of the conscience as well as the moral obligation and the ethical values, are all eradicated. In other words, the proper understanding of the moral good and its practical implementation are distorted.According to the Cracovian thinker, the person is not a sum of conscious experiences, but it rather is a trul...