„Możliwość” czy „możność”. Wprowadzenie do problematyki

• Authors: Prokop Marek P.

Title variants

EN

Potentiality or potency. Introduction to the problems

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to show how the Aristotelian contents “potentiality” and “potency” have been mixed up in the Arabic legacy, especially in Avicennian philosophy. Whereas Aristotle distinguished between potentiality as the logical term and potency as the ontological one, Avicenna combined them and concluded that potentiality can be regarded as the concerning the level of real being. This confusion has been held later by, for example, John Duns Scotus. It was great service of Thomas Aquinas, who discerned two concepts and precisely indicated that they belong to the different and irreducible orders: logical and ontological one.

Keywords

PL

możność i możliwość; filozofia arabska; św. Tomasz z Akwinu; historia filozofii średniowiecznej

EN

potency and potentiality; Arabic philosophy; Thomas Aquinas; history of the medieval philosophy

• Publisher: Naukowe Towarzystwo Tomistyczne
• Journal: Rocznik Tomistyczny
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 55-67

Contributors

author

Prokop Marek P.

• Zakład Biografistyki Polonijnej, Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-1976