The Existential Metaphysics of the Person. Part 1: The Classical Concept of the Person and the Metaphysical Theory of Esse

• Authors: Gudaniec Arkadiusz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The article is the first part of a brief presentation of a research project aimed at introducing the concept of the existential metaphysics of the person—a contribution to classical anthropology based on so-called existential metaphysics. Firstly, it discusses the roots of this concept in the light of the classical concept of person and of the philosophical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In particular, it discusses Aquinas’s significant achievement in combining the philosophical-theological concept of the person with the metaphysical theory of existence as an act of being (esse ut actus essendi). Secondly, it presents the theoretical model of the metaphysics of the person, developed in the Lublin Philosophical School in Poland, as a modernized version of Aquinas’s concept. The particular core of this theory is the concept of personal existence (esse personale), opening the way for new ground-breaking interpretations.

Keywords

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Lublin Philosophical School; Thomas Aquinas; Karol Wojtyła; Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec; man; human being; person; philosophical anthropology; philosophy of man; metaphysics of the person; metaphysical personalism; existence; personal existence; esse personale; esse; esse ut actus essendi; realistic metaphysics; existential metaphysics; definition of the person

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 277-292

Dates

published

2021-06-30

Contributors

author

Gudaniec Arkadiusz

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Notes

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DOI: 10.26385/SG.100211