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STANISLAW TREMBECKI'S 'SOFIOWKA' AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION ('Sofiówka' Stanislawa Trembeckiego wobec tradycji filozoficznej antyku)

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Sniegucka A.

Ruch Literacki

2009

vol. 50

issue 2(295)

109-131

This fresh reading of Stanisław Trembecki's (1737-1812) 'Sofiówka' (Sophie's Garden) (1806) tries to solve the problem of the poem's alleged inconsistencies by interpreting it in light of the Epicurean doctrine. The authoress argues that Epicureanism not only holds the key to a comprehensive appreciation of the poem but also enables us to make better sense of its most controversial passages, ie. the encomium of Count Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki, and the Russian monarchs Catherine II and Alexander I. The Epicurean approach also helps to illuminate the significance of some passages that have been ignored by the critics, eg. the narrator's voyage in Charon's boat or his stay on the island of Anti-Circe. Moreover, the present analysis focuses on the existential dilemmas of the main character, who tries in vain to defend himself against the fear of death and the despair brought about by the thoughts of the inexorable laws of determinism.

Stoic and Epicurean Elements in the Theory of Knowledge of Thomas Aquinas

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Pawlikowski T.

Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria

2005

vol. 14

issue 2(54)

85-102

An interpretation which Thomas Aquinas has offered as a solution of the problem of 'cognitive apprehesions' (conceptiones) of the human intellect bears clear marks of an Epicurean-Stoic understanding of 'prolepseis' and 'ennoiai' insofar as it underscores a specific innate character of 'conceptiones communes' and 'conceptiones universales' as evidenced by their anticipatory function. Some conceptiones are what we call today propositions, very much like Augustine's 'notiones' or Epicurean-Stoic 'prolepseis', or 'katalepseis'. Such concepts cannot be found in Aristotle who, moreover, did not have terms with which he could identify 'cognitive apprehesions'. He discusses concepts as a separate topic in the context of the origin and nature of the universals (katholou), and regards propositions which are not distinguished from sentences (logos) as either affirmations (kataphasis) or negations (apophasis). Aquinas took over from Aristotle the idea that all human knowledge originates in the experience of being, and from Stoics and Epicureans the conception of the anticipatory nature of human cognitive concepts. He merged these two traditions with the help of Augustinian conception of illumination, a theory of 'conceptiones universales' and a theory of transcendental concepts and first principles which he called 'conceptiones communes'.

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STANISLAW TREMBECKI'S 'SOFIOWKA' AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION ('Sofiówka' Stanislawa Trembeckiego wobec tradycji filozoficznej antyku)

Stoic and Epicurean Elements in the Theory of Knowledge of Thomas Aquinas