Small Mistakes in the Beginning: Stanley L. Jaki: Arch-Defender of Christian Civilization of Freedom, and Somewhat Unwitting Obstacle to It?: An American/Gilsonian Perspective
Small Mistakes in the Beginning: Stanley L. Jaki: Arch-Defender of Christian Civilization of Freedom, and Somewhat Unwitting Obstacle to It?: An American/Gilsonian Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The presented article concerns the topic of departing from philosophy understood in Gilson's sense as a disinterested learning about the truth about the world around us and the consequences resulting from this (also in relation to teaching philosophy). The article expresses the conviction that Gilson's concept of the unity of philosophical experience is justified, and that we should treat philosophy as a starting point and basis for all sciences. These views are expressed in the article in a polemic tone, because the article itself is a polemic with the views of the famous philosopher, mathematician and theologian, Stanley Jaki, who believes that contemporary physics is currently the only - in the strict sense - science. The author, discussing this position, draws attention primarily to the fact that all science should be wisdom-oriented (that is, it should ask about the first causes - principia) of all components of the perceived reality.

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