Volume 68 (2013), 6

The article’s focus is on the analogies and differences between the approaches to individuation in contemporary analytical philosophy and in Duns Scotus. Attention is paid especially to the comparison of the theory of naked substrates with Scotus’ conceiving the individual difference (haecceitas). It is argued, that if the naked substrate is conceived as an… Read more

The aim of this article is to compare two different cognitive theses and very similar views on the function of mind: on one side the thesis of the medieval doctor invinci- bilis W. Ockham, concerning the crucial architecture of intellect, and on the other side the psycho-semantics of mind as presented by J. Fodor. These authors deal with different contexts, themes… Read more

The paper offers an analysis of Abelard’s writing Collationes sive Dialogus inter philosophum, iudaeum et christianum with special attention paid to inter-religious dialogue. During a fictitious conversation in which a Christian, a Jew and a philosopher take part four main topics are addressed: ethics, hermeneutics, the relationship between reason and belief and… Read more

The problem of tolerance in Thomas Aquinas is approached in the article as rooted in the virtue of patience. Patience (patientia) as conceived in Christiany is related to hope and preceded by belief. According to Aquinas, this interconnection of patience and hope enables humans conducted by loving their neighbors to tolerate, in certain situations, the evils… Read more