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10John Punch's Hybrid Theory of RelationsFranciscan Studies 80 (1): 137-170. 2022.John Punch (or Ponce; Latin Joannes Poncius, or, occasionally, Pontius, 1599/1603–1661), an Irish Franciscan in exile, unorthodox Scotist and a skilled collaborator of the famous Luke Wadding, is interesting for his fresh and open-minded approach to traditional Scotist doctrines. His take on the theory of relations, which is the topic of this paper, is no exception. As I will show, in his Integer philosophiae cursus ad mentem Scoti1 he only pretends to be defending a doctrine considered to be tr…Read more
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3An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare ParticularsIn Lukás Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík & David Svoboda (eds.), Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, Ontos Verlag. pp. 113-122. 2012.
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26Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (edited book)Ontos Verlag. 2012.Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, both in the analytic and continental traditions, metaphysics was deemed to be passé. The last few decades, however, have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest among analytic philosophers in various traditional metaphysical topics, such as modality, truth, causality, etc. which resulted in the emergence of various forms of analytic metaphysics. The new forms of metaphysics differ from its traditional forms mostly in their methodology and i…Read more
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177“Let Us Think the Tradition Through Anew!” A Philosophical Interview with Prof. Stanislav SousedíkStudia Neoaristotelica 10 (1): 5-11. 2013.This paper is a Philosophical Interview with Prof. Stanislav Sousedík.
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11Být v či nebýt v?Studia Neoaristotelica 19 (5): 61-85. 2022.The purpose of this article is to compare the Thomist and the Scotist theory of relations. The main feature of the Thomist theory is an effort to minimize the ontological import of the specific essential ratio of relation as such, called esse ad, and to reduce the ontological import of its other aspect, the esse in or inherence understood as a common feature of all accidents, to the esse in of its foundation. The Scotists, on the other hand, have no tendency to deflate the esse ad of a relation.…Read more
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19Qui melius scit exponere, exponat!Studia Neoaristotelica 19 (2): 139-176. 2022.John Duns Scotus’s famous doctrine of the formal distinction has a twofold justification: a theological one, stemming from the necessity to express coherently the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity, and a metaphysical one, according to which formal distinction is a necessary condition of the abstraction of universal (objective) concepts from individuals. This paper is a detailed analysis of this latter argument, presented by Scotus in Questions on Metaphysics VII, q. 19. Scotus apparently de…Read more
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22Limits of the concept of altruism: Individualism, Batson’s theory of altruism, and a social realist alternativeJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 42 (2): 78-92. 2022.
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34Suárez’s Notion of AnalogyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 95 (2): 195-233. 2021.Suárez’s theory of analogy is commonly considered problematic, insomuch as it attempts to combine the assertion of perfect unity and precision of the concept of being with the insistence that it is not univocal but analogical. In this article I first attempt to identify the precise nature of the problem in Suárez’s account and then propose an interpretation of Suárez’s notion of analogy according to which what Suárez calls “analogy” is basically the same thing as Scotus’s essential order. I sugg…Read more
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17Courage, Justice, and Practical Wisdom as Key Virtues in the Era of COVID-19Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Fowers et al. recently made a general argument for virtues as the characteristics necessary for individuals to flourish, given inherent human limitations. For example, people can flourish by developing the virtue of friendship as they navigate the inherent human dependency on others. This general argument also illuminates a pathway to flourishing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the risks of which have induced powerful fears, exacerbated injustices, and rendered life and death decisions far more co…Read more
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31Confusion or Precision?Studia Neoaristotelica 17 (2): 151-200. 2020.This paper is an attempt to explicate, using the method of conceptual reconstruction rather than historical, text-oriented analysis, the plurality of meanings of two connected terms that play an important role in scholastic thought: “confusio” and “praecisio”. These terms are used in a plurality of meanings by the scholastics, and sometimes even in one and the same context. The aim of this paper is to disentangle these various meanings from each other, offer their precise definitions and explore…Read more
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Scotova nauka o pojmu jsoucna a spor o její interpretaci v barokním scotismuFilosoficky Casopis 52 569-581. 2004.[Scotus` doctrine of the univocity of being. and the controversy concerning its interpretation in Baroque Scotism]
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36How Pure a Potency?American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 93 (2): 271-308. 2019.In their Philosophiae ad mentem Scoti cursus integer Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto describe the great variety of Thomist views on the nature of the “pure potentiality” of matter. This paper confronts Mastri and Belluto’s report with actual Thomist texts, to find that the variety is much greater than the Scotists’ report suggests and their classification of many authors unreliable. The detailed survey of the various versions of Thomism is set against an attempt to analyse the general …Read more
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34How (Not) to Be an Aristotelian With Respect to Contemporary PhysicsStudia Neoaristotelica 14 (1): 85-109. 2017.Haec tractatio est responsio critica ad tractationem Ludovici Groarke, titulo “Orbitae ellipticae, possintne Aristotelice explicari?”, necnon ad commentationem Jacobi Franklin, cui titulus “De orbitis ellipticis ac Aristotelica revolutione scientifica”. Auctor imprimis ostendit (ultra censuram a J. Franklin factam procedens) explanationem “Aristotelicam” orbitarum ellipticarum a L. Groarke propositam non solum analysi Newtonianae repugnare, sed etiam in se esse incohaerentem. Porro auctor alia L…Read more
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39Ján Duns Scotus. Vybrané kapitoly z jeho epistemológie a metafyziky.: A Journal of Analytic Scholasticism (review)Studia Neoaristotelica 5 (1): 85-88. 2008.This paper is a review of the book 'Ján Duns Scotus. Vybrané kapitoly z jeho epistemológie a metafyziky' by Michal Ghabada.
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56Conceptual atomism, “Aporia Generis” and a Way Out for Leibniz and the AristoteliansStudia Neoaristotelica 6 (1): 15-49. 2009.Conceptual atomism is a doctrine deeply rooted in the tradition of western thought. It originated with Aristotle, was present in the entire Aristotelian tradition and came to its most pure expression in the work of Leibniz. However, ab initio this doctrine suffered from certain difficulty labelled traditionally “aporia generis”, namely the problem of how it is possible to reconcile the absolute simplicity of the primitive concepts (or ultimate differentiae) with the existence of transcendental c…Read more
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33Suárezova neuchopitelná teorie vztahuStudia Neoaristotelica 12 (3): 76-111. 2015.The teachings of Francisco Suárez tend to have the queer quality of being at once transparent and unintelligible. An example of this is his theory of relations. It is clear that, according to Suárez, a categorical relation is both really and modally identical to its foundation; on the other hand, however, the relative denomination does not apply to the foundation unless the terminus of the relation actually exists. One may ask, then: given that the foundation exists but the terminus does not, is…Read more
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19Note on Editorial Policies. List of AbbreviationsIn Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 8-10. 2014.
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8Index of Greek TermsIn Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 348-348. 2014.
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15Author ProfilesIn Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 325-328. 2014.
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42The Reception of Scotus’s Proof of God’s Existence by the Baroque ScotistsQuaestio 8 323-344. 2008.
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34Metafyzika jako věda. Ibn Síná a Ibn Rušd ve scholastické diskusi (review)Studia Neoaristotelica 5 (1): 89-96. 2008.This paper is a book review of 'Metafyzika jako věda. Ibn Síná a Ibn Rušd ve scholastické diskusi' by Marek Otisk.
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18Doctrina de connotatis v barokně-scholastické diskusiStudia Neoaristotelica 13 (6): 105-128. 2016.In Baroque scholasticism the medieval semantic theory of connotation as a property of terms, originally elaborated by Ockham and others, received an ontological application or re-interpretation in the context of the theory of relations. The main proponent of this ontologized “doctrina de connotatis” seems to have been Suárez. Subsequently, this doctrine was severely criticised by the Jesuits Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza and Rodrigo de Arriaga, but also by the “princeps Scotistarum” Bartholomeo Mastr…Read more
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6Index of PersonsIn Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 345-348. 2014.
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10About the EditorIn Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 329-330. 2014.
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64The Scotist Theory of UnivocityStudia Neoaristotelica 3 (1): 17-27. 2006.The article explains the notion of univocity in line with the mature Scotistic doctrine, which plays so crucial a role in the Scotistic rejection of analogy as a middle ground between univocity and pure equivocity. Since univocity of a concept is found to consist in its perfect unity, and the perfect unity of a concept is achieved by means of perfect abstraction, the notion of this so-called abstraction by precision is made clear and contrasted with the so-called abstraction by confusion, by mea…Read more
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23Můžeme mluvit o tom, co není?Studia Neoaristotelica 11 (3): 36-72. 2014.The aim of the article is twofold: to document how what the author labels the “Principle of Reference” – viz. the claim that that which is not cannot be referred to – inspires both actualist and possibilist philosophical conceptions in the analytic tradition as well as in scholasticism, and to show how Duns Scotus’s rejection of the Principle allows us to see that there are two distinct and logically independent meanings of the actualism–possibilism distinction: viz. metaphysical actualism/…poss…Read more