{"title":"Separation as the Basic Method of Realistic Metaphysics: The Approach by the Lublin Philosophical School Representatives","authors":"T. Duma","doi":"10.26385/SG.100324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.100324","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"10 1","pages":"611-633"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44583819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Existential Metaphysics of the Person. Part 1: The Classical Concept of the Person and the Metaphysical Theory of Esse","authors":"A. Gudaniec","doi":"10.26385/SG.100211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.100211","url":null,"abstract":"The question of the status of the person still turns out to be one of the most important problems of the contemporary world. Both the theoretical question of “what is the human being?,” of key importance to philosophical anthropology, as well as important for humanity of all times, the existential version of that question “who am I?,” have accompanied man or woman since the dawn of their intellectual reflection on the nature of the world and the meaning of their own life. They have always been so, and nowadays they are probably more important to humankind than ever due to the important socio-cultural, ideological, legal, etc., aspects, with their more or less clear consequences in the practical life of individuals and societies. This paper is a brief presentation of a research project aimed at introducing the idea of the existential metaphysics of the person. Firstly, the roots of this concept will be discussed in the light of the classical concept of the person and, in particular, of the philosophical theories of St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as a contemporary version of the metaphysics of the person devised within the Lublin Philosophical School in Po-","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"10 1","pages":"277-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42427057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Distinctions of Classical Principles for Modern Constitutions: Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Fr. Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister","authors":"Brian M. McCall","doi":"10.26385/SG.100218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.100218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"28 12","pages":"455-474"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41294000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Heart of Culture by Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership","authors":"Brian Welter","doi":"10.26385/SG.100219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.100219","url":null,"abstract":"This simple yet hopeful book, the outcome of the work of the readers with an overview of the productive fusion of Greek thought with the truth of the Catholic faith. A wide range of readers will Heart of Culture , including university students, teachers, and parents. The authors take a chronological view of western education, starting by describing paideia their search for the rele-vant This paper is a review of the book: Habiger Institute for Catholic Leadership, The Heart of Culture (Providence, R.I.: Cluny, 2020). The author highlights that the book (1) takes a chronological view of western education, beginning from its roots in ancient Greece, through its development by Christianity, up to its present crisis, and (2) stresses that what western education needs today to correct its errors is not a specific plan of action, but a set of principles, including the cultivation of wisdom and virtue.","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"10 1","pages":"475-480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43932760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karol Wojtyła: A Thomist or a Phenomenologist?","authors":"P. Jaroszynski","doi":"10.26385/SG.100105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.100105","url":null,"abstract":"Although the figure of St. John Paul II is known worldwide, he still remains so rich that not everything about him has been discovered or said, at least in their proper proportions. He is known above all as the Pope who led the Catholic Church for almost 27 years, as one who worked diligently for peace in the world, and as the author of many important ecclesiastical documents. But he was also the author of many books and poetical works and a superb speaker who could reach millions of hearts and minds the world over. He is less well known as an intellectual, as a thinker, and as a philosopher. But it was in this last field, still as Karol Wojtyła, that he dealt with some very important issues, addressing them in lectures, discussions, and articles. The recovery of his strictly philosophical contributions is worth undertaking, because they enrich not only philosophy itself but—to the degree that Wojtyła’s philosophy is a universal philosophy—they enrich both Christian and general culture. Wojtyła’s philosophical writings are not among the easiest to read. This is not something unusual: philosophy is a difficult discipline. Some authors, however, are nevertheless particularly difficult. In Wojtyła’s case, it is a matter of a kind of intellectual concentration that a given text demands from a reader. It is a kind of concentration acquired","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"10 1","pages":"135-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46605991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Perennial Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Great Books Tradition","authors":"Heather M. Erb","doi":"10.26385/SG.100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.100104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"10 1","pages":"103-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41774974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against Unconscious Motivations, Urges, and Instincts in Human Beings","authors":"Zbigniew Pańpuch","doi":"10.26385/SG.090423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"537-547"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Pursuit of True Wisdom: How the Re-Emergence of Classical Wonder Should Replace Descartes’s Neo-Averrostic Sophistry","authors":"Jason Nehez","doi":"10.26385/SG.090212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090212","url":null,"abstract":"Modern mathematical physics often claims to make philosophy obsolete. This presentation aims to show that the modern concept of wisdom fundamentally diverges with the thinking of Descartes, that, strictly speaking , at least in his metaphysical first principles, if not in his chief aim, he may be a sophist and no philosopher at all. Descartes denies the classical understanding of philosophy and thereby reduces the human person to an intellect separate from the body. Descartes initiated a popular understanding of sophistry that reverberates to today in our modern institutions of philosophy and science. But St. Thomas Aquinas anticipated this divergence and gave a defense of true wisdom in his writing against Averroes. This presentation concludes with what constitutes real philosophy and science as presented by St. Thomas Aquinas, namely sense wonder that cre-ates a search for the true knowledge of the unity responsible for true causes of true effects. For a true restoration of philosophy and science we will need a re-emergence and recovery of this understanding of wisdom.","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"287-315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47904625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the Human Soul Sexed? In Search for the Truth on Human Sexuality","authors":"Andrzej Maryniarczyk","doi":"10.26385/SG.090104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"87-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42534519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Aquinas Stopped Commenting on Boethius’s De Trinitate","authors":"F. Ugwuanyi","doi":"10.26385/SG.090106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090106","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, Aquinas’s commentaries on the two works of Boethius, De Trinitate and De Hebdomadibus, has prompted worries among scholars. The central question is why Aquinas had to comment upon these works of Boethius nearly seven hundred years after the death of Boethius. Having made my submission in the ongoing debate, I was yet confronted with another problem of why Aquinas did not continue the commentary on Boethius’s De Trinitate. Note that Aquinas’s commentary stops at question six, article four without any explanation as to why, and this is before the point in the text where Boethius gets to the heart of the subject matter. This question sounds unlikely and, as such, I do not think it can be shown answered directly from the texts. Nevertheless, I believe that from the absence of a separate text on Aquinas’s reason for not continuing with the treatise of Boethius one may not conclude that such reasons do not exist. That such a conclusion would be premature can be clarified by comparison with the debate on the reasons behind his two commentaries on Boethius. Like the former, Aquinas produces no account for his reasons, but the intentions of changing the structural method of argument and the bid to establish the","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"167-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}