Prawda o intelekcie. Mieczysława Gogacza rozumienie intelektu możnościowego i czynnego

• Authors: Zembrzuski Michał

Title variants

EN

Truth about intellect. Understanding of possible and agent intellect in the thought of Mieczysław Gogacz

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is presentation the problems of possible intellect and agent intellect in philosophy Mieczyslaw Gogacz, founder of consequent version of thomism (Warsaw School of Thomism). His understanding of the intellect was dictated by the successive publications. Difference between intellects, was first shown in the context of fundamental metaphysical positions - realism and idealism. According to M. Gogacz realistic proposition is depends on the distinction between two intellects, and idealistic related with the acceptance of a single intellect with passive and active function, and identification of the faculties of the soul with itself. M. Gogacz presented the metaphysical description of the nature of the intellect, emphasizing its being, as well as the very essence. He underlined that the possible intellect should be defined as the possibility of the soul, which is it imperfection (intellect is principle of individuation of the soul), located in the soul, but not identical with its essence. Agent intellect in his opinion should be defined as an accident of the possible intellect. Distinction between possible intellect and agent intellect allowed to remark the difference between knowing confused and clearly, and to build the theory of “speech of the heart”, which describes the most important way of knowing a principle of being – act of being.

Keywords

PL

intelekt możnościowy; intelekt czynny; dusza i ciało; jednostkowienie; Tomasz z Akwinu; Mieczysław Gogacz

EN

possible intellect; agent intellect; soul and body; individuation; Thomas Aquinas; Mieczysław Gogacz

• Publisher: Naukowe Towarzystwo Tomistyczne
• Journal: Rocznik Tomistyczny
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 75-89

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Zembrzuski Michał

• Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie, Wydział Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej