Podstawy progresywności oraz uniwersalizmu filozofii św. Tomasza z Akwinu według Gallusa Mansera

Abstract

Undertaken analyses demonstrated that an issue of the philosophical progressivism and universalism of philosophy should have been considered on a metaphysical level. Therefore, a progressive character of St. Thomas philosophy depends on objective, subjective, and methodological conditions of the philosophical cognition. On the other hand, a universalism of this philosophy manifests itself in its object, manner of human cognition, and common nature of all the men. It was stated that the actual and potential structure of the being and the cognition, which appears as a basis of the permanent perfection and complementation of human cognition, is a principle of the progressive and universal character of Thomas Aquinas’ philosophy.