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- Title
Racjonalnie o nieracjonalnym. Filozoficzne aspekty nauki o wróżbiarstwie i magii św. Tomasza z Akwinu.
- Authors
Tomasz Dutkiewicz, K. S.
- Abstract
In his encyclical Fides et Ratio, John Paul II mentioned St. Thomas Aquinas as a “master of the art of thinking,” emphasizing his ability to reconcile faith and reason. Undoubtedly, Aquinas’ great merit is the perfecting of the philosophical tools inherited from Aristotle and their application in the process of rationalizing revealed truths. St. Thomas also made use of these tools in his successful attempt to address themes as irrational as magic and divination. Aquinas refers to the philosophical concept of efficient causality, the intellectual and sensory part of the human soul, and the sign understood as a material mediator in the process of communication. The use of these concepts allowed St. Thomas to take up rationally a number of questions related to fortune-telling and magic, such as the extent to which it is possible to justify fortune-telling rationally, why the influence of celestial bodies cannot determine human fate, or what it is that makes the activity of magicians effective.
- Subjects
DIVINATION; MANUFACTURING processes; MAGICIANS; MAGIC; SOUL
- Publication
Studia Gdańskie, 2020, Vol 46, p121
- ISSN
0137-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26142/stgd-2020-007