Perspektywy rozwoju filozofii tomistycznej na podstawie sytuacji w Polsce
Perspectives for the development of Thomistic philosophy in Poland

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the perspectives for the development and thus the future of Thomistic philosophy in Poland. This issue is considered with respect to specific studies outside the main object of interest of general metaphysics, and which take the form of detailed and applied metaphysics. While the former refers to a narrow field of research, the second uses the achievements of other and more basic philosophical sciences, including general metaphysics. Metaphysics of this kind constitutes a broadly understood study of what is most fundamental not for being as such, but for all basic types of objects in the realms of nature and culture. It is not, however, alternative to general metaphysics, which explores reality in its transcendental dimension. On the contrary, by using its achievements it establishes a connection with it and constitutes its necessary complement. By developing this metaphysics, this article illustrates the philosophy of nature, philosophical anthropology and two forms of the philosophy of human action, namely, religion and morality. Some of the topics they suggest have already been taken up by many representatives of Thomist thought in Poland, while others can be the object of future research. The realization of these forms of metaphysics corresponds not only to the structure of a pluralistic reality and an interrelated series of dependencies, but also highlights current and new problems that require a thorough and comprehensive approach, which can only be provided by a metaphysical perspective within Thomistic philosophy.

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