Knowledge and Faith

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-0894-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 419 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 889 g

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities / Polish Analytical Philosophy

Jan Salamucha was born on the 10th of June 1903 in Warsaw and murdered on the 11th of August 1944 in Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising very early on in his scholarly career. He is the most original representative of the branch of the Lvov-Warsaw School known as the Cracow Circle. The Circle was a grouping of scholars who were interested in reconstructing scholasticism and Christian philosophy in general by means of mathematical logic. As Jan ??L??ukasiewicz’s successor in the area of logic and Konstanty Michalski’s student in the area of the history of medieval thought, Salamucha had an excellent preparation for this task.
His main achievements include a masterful logical analysis of the proof ex motu for the existence of God, a modern interpretation of analogical notions and a comprehensive approach to the problem of essence. He also contributed several historical studies: he examined Aristotle’s theory of deduction (and found contradictions in it), he reconstructed William Ockham’s propositional logic and established the authenticity of his treatise on insolubilia, and he identified the historical sources of the antinomies in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
He did not shy away from popularizing philosophy, and in that work he was able to elucidate rather than oversimplify the complexities of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salamucha, Jan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Swietorzecka, Kordula

Jadacki, Jacek

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Note
Jacek JADACKI and Kordula SWIETORZECKA: On Jan Salamucha’s Life and Work
Part I. Logic and Theology
On the 'Mechanization' of Thinking
On the Possibilities of a Strict Formalization of the Domain of Analogical Notions
The Proof ex motu for the Existence of God. Logical Analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Arguments
Part II. History of Logic
The Propositional Logic in William Ockham
The Appearance of Antinomial Problems within Medieval Logic
From the History of Medieval Nominalism
Part III Metaphysics and Ethics
From the History of One Word (“Essence”)
The Structure of the Material World
Faith
The Relativity and Absoluteness of Catholic Ethics
The Problem of Force in Social Life
A Vision of Love
Comments and Discussions
Bibliography