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Możliwość samozagłady świata. Metafizyczne dociekania św. Tomasza z Akwinu w „Kwestiach dyskutowanych o mocy Boga”.

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Sulenta P.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2022
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issue 11
127-146
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The undertaken considerations in the presented article belong to the broader context of metaphysical analyzes concerning one of the aspects of the creative action of the Absolute, which is the preservation of the world in existence (conservatio mundi). This issue is considered from the perspective of created substances and therefore it is expressed in the question of whether they have the possibility of non-existence, which, based on Thomas Aquinas’ creatio ex nihilo theory, is tantamount to the question of whether they were created by God in destructible natures and as such they aim at to self-annihilation. The negation in the substantial order of the disposition to non-existence in contingent beings seems to justify the conclusion that their duration is founded not only in the divine act of preserving in existence but also in their inherent nature, which is oriented rather towards being than non-being. In order to solve the problem formulated in this way, in the first place, the principles responsible for the destructibility of beings will be analyzed, then the considerations focus on the necessity of the existence of created sub-stances, and the whole is completed by the presentation of the relation between contingency and destructibility.
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Piotra Semenenki próba odnowy filozofii klasycznej

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Pociej J.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2016
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vol. 5
329-355
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Father Piotr Semenenko (1814-1886), one of the founders of Collegium Resurrectianum – the catholic order originally servig Polish migrants and refugees – created a unique philosophical system meant to reunite classical philosophy and the modern one on the ground of the contemporary natural science. The central point of his theory is the concept of force grasped as the third metaphysical element of being along with the traditional act and potency. The article portrays the scholar himself and presents the main accomplishments of his thought – the actualization of classical scholasticism and natural science as well as the rectification of modern philosophy. Further, there is also an outline given of his philosophical system, notably on the topic of the metaphysical and epistemological conception of force.
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Discovery of the Internal Structure of Being by Andrzej Maryniarczyk

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Lesomar A. A.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2020
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vol. 9
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issue 3
499-506
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This paper is a review of the book: Andrzej Maryniarczyk, S.D.B., Discovery of the Internal Structure of Being, trans. Hugh McDonald (Lublin-Roma: PTTA, 2018). According to the author, Fr. Maryniarczyk’s book is (1) a new interpretation of Aristotle’s and Aquinas’s understanding of the internal structure and compositional elements of being, and (2) a recommended reading for students and lecturers of philosophy.
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The Silence of Socrates: The One and the Many in Plato’s Parmenides

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Barmore S.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2020
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vol. 9
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issue 2
209-236
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Parmenides was not a metaphysician (he was a materialist), so there is no such thing as Parmenidean metaphysics. Plato’s Parmenides, however, offers metaphysical insights otherwise overlooked by readers unfamiliar to what St. Thomas Aquinas offers concerning the One and the Many. This article highlights some of these insights and will interest students of St. Thomas. It might also acquaint students of Plato to a more perfect metaphysics, and it could even corrode the beliefs of others who maintain that there is no such thing as metaphysics. The fact that none of the sciences may dispense with the first science is brought heavily to bear upon the reader of the Parmenides, who finds it otherwise impossible to resolve any of the difficulties attendant upon reconciling the One and the Many. The many apparent contradictions between the One and the Many displayed in Plato’s Parmenides really cannot be solved without sound metaphysics, and sound metaphysics cannot proceed unaided by St. Thomas and his inheritors. Go to Thomas to understand Plato’s Parmenides.
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THOMAS AQUINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF BEING AS THE BASIS FOR WOJTYŁA’S CONCEPT AND COGNITION OF HUMAN PERSON

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Jałocho-Palicka M.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2014
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vol. 3
127-153
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The article makes a claim that Thomas Aquinas’ philosophy of being plays a fundamental role in Karol Wojtyła’s concept of person presented in his major anthropological work Osoba i czyn (known in English as The Acting person). Aquinas discovered that every being is composed of existence (being, esse) and essence (essentia). Wojtyła builds his philosophy of personhood within this framework of esse (being, existence) and essentia (essence). The moral and rational essence of human person, according to Wojtyła, is best revealed by specifically human, free and conscious, actions. That is why Wojtyła analyzes human person through his actions and discovers such essential structures of human reason and free will as self-cognition, self-knowledge, self-owning, self-ruling which make the ontic basis for selfgovernance. The immediate ground for Wojtyła’s analysis of person through his actions is the act and potency theory, developed by Aristotle and redefined by Thomas Aquinas in the light of the composition of being from esse and essentia. Every act reveals a correlated potency which otherwise would remain hidden and unknown. Potency-act theory characterizes not only two real states of every being, but also it is the adequate tool to describe every being’s becoming. It is not becoming out of nothingness, but on the ground and within the limits of already existing potency. A specifically human action (actus humanus) discloses a specifically human potency-essence. Through his actions a man becomes good or bad as a man, depending on the moral quality of the actions. All these insights into man’s essence presented by Wojtyła emphasize the absolute primacy of a man’s existence (being, esse) over his actions and over his becoming. Being (esse) precedes acting and becoming. Without being (esse) there would be no acting and no becoming (operari sequitur esse—first something must exist and only then it can act). Thus, as a contingent being, a man does not owe his existence to himself but to the Absolute Being (Ipsum Esse); and his human dignity stems, first of all, from his being, not from his doing.
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Konsekwencje metafizyczne ujęć materii i ruchu we współczesnej fizyce

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Pociej J.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2018
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vol. 7
287-312
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Both ancient and medieval world picture in philosophy reflected the world picture in natural sciences of the time. Consequently, our contemporary metaphysical world picture should correspond to that in modern science. In the article Albert Mitterer’s and Tadeusz Wojciechowski’s Concepts of the Interdependence of Matter and Motion there has been an outline presented of such picture, based on the ideas of the title scholars. In this article an attempt has been made to draw metaphysical consequences from their concepts of constitutional motion and particle act in reference to inanimate mattter, vegetative, sensitive and rational beings as well as The Prime Being.
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Existence a ten, kdo omdlívá ve V(v)ěci Makropulos, Tažení stínů (moderny) a v Duchu (středoevropské) země

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Celhofferová K.
Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
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2016
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vol. 13
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issue 26
61-76
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This study is concerned with the swooning as one of the characteristic motifs of modernism, arising from a period of reflexive attention. First it will examine this in the dramas of Arthur Schnitzler Zug der Schatten and Frank Wedekind’s Erdgeist, then will turn to the demarcated realm of Central European Modernism (with support from Moritz Csáky’s characterization of Zentraleurope) as located in the works of Karel Čapek. Janáček’s libreto The Makropulos Affair comments on the basic polemics in whose background are shown the crucial importance of the motif of fainting in the overall construction of Čapek’s early works.
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Egzystencjalna metafizyka bytu w traktacie "De ente et essentia" Tomasza z Akwinu

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Andrzejuk A.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2013
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vol. 2
95-111.
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Text De ente et essentia was written together with "De principis naturae" in Thomas’ first years of teaching activities and accounted philosophical “exercises” for the brothers at the convent of St. James in Paris. There is commonly noted, that Aquinas had already established the most important theses of his philosophy, the existential metaphysics of being above all, in which the act was the existence of this being, and the form with the matter constituted its essence. In this situation, the source of all existence, God appeared as only existence. Analysis of existential themes in "De ente et essentia" confirms these opinions. In later texts, especially in the "Summa Contra Gentiles", "Summa theologiae" and "Quaestiones disputatae", Thomas deepens his concepts; he introduces extended topic of transcendentals - property of being which manifest its existence. However, the bulk of his existential metaphysics of existence has been outlined already in "De ente et essentia", and it was never corrected in the basic theses.
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Relacja materii i ruchu w ujęciu Tadeusza Wojciechowskiego i Alberta Mitterera

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Pociej J.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2017
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vol. 6
189-206
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In the middle of the twentieth century a major controversy arose in Polish philosophy over the problem of the actuality of the cosmological proof of God’s existence. Tadeusz Wojciechowski, a young priest and freshly graduated Ph.D. in philosophy, pointed out that it was the mutual relation of philosophy and physics which played the crucial role in the proper assessment of the question. In his opinion, the traditional version of the proof was no longer valid due to the discoveries of modern physics which proved that motion is an inherent attribute of matter. Consequently, he insisted on introducing a third element – a particle act – into the Aristotelian concept of potency and act. Surprisingly, none of the scholars involved in the controversy have ever mentioned the works of an Austrian philosopher and theologian Albert Mitterer, who discussed the same topic twenty years earlier. Since his views seem to be complementary to Wojciechowski’s concept, they were also included in the article. Finally, a brief review was added of how contemporary physics confirms the theories of the two philosophers.
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Trzy rozumienia „generatio” w herezji Ariusza oraz sposoby ich przezwyciężenia w tekstach Tomasza z Akwinu

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Gałuszka J.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2013
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vol. 2
69-77
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In this article I present a philosophical considerations of theological heresy of presbyter Arius from the perspective of Aquinas’ criticism included in his works, with special honors Summa contra Gentiles. I show the role of Aristotle’s philosophy in creating the ancient Arianism, as well as its scholastic overcome. Analyzing the arguments of Arius, I familiarize myself with the concept of birthing Word as metaphysical substantial change, the transition from potency to act or movement perfecting. We are getting to know the thinking of Aquinas, exploring arguments of Alexandrian presbyter with the help of the same philosophy of Stagirite and winning this timeless intellectual startup.
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O związku między istościami a świadomością i jaźnią

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Pociej J.
Rocznik Tomistyczny
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2020
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vol. 2
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issue 9
41-71
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The third in a series of texts printed in “Rocznik Tomistyczny” (the former two are Albert Mitterer’s and Tadeusz Wojciechowski’s Concepts of the Interdependence of Matter and Motion, RT 6/2017 and The Metaphysical Consequences of the Concepts of Matter and Motion in Contemporary Physics, RT 7/2018) this article gives the crowning touch to the theory of dynamo-energetic duality of being. Applying the method of transcendental analogy, it reveals how human mind – cognizing matter-motion, as well as vegetative, sensitive and rational beings – comes to the conclusion that there are one consciousness and three selves in the Prime Being – the counterpart of triune God of the Catholic doctrine.
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