Próba reformy tomizmu przez ks. Jana Salamuchę

Abstract

This article presents proposals of J. Salamucha, Polish philosopher and logician, concerning the reform of the philosophy of St. Thomas. Salamucha and other philosophers from the Cracov Circle tried to make the thomistic philosophy more exact with the help of modem logic and modem sciences. The main points of J. Salamucha’s works were the following: 1. the criticism of the neothomism movement: according to Salamucha it has abandoned the most important values of St. Thomas’ thought and has rejected modem logic, which can help in construing philosophical arguments; 2. the presentation of forgotten traits of St. Thomas philosophy; 3. the revision of some scholastic statements and some attempts to develop traditionally thomistic ideas. The paper presents some J. Salamucha’s attempts to develop thomistic philosophy with the help of modem science, logic, methodology and modem philosophy. A particular attention is paid to the logical analysis of the argument ex motu.