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Studia Gilsoniana A JOURNAL IN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY Studia Gilsoniana A JOURNAL IN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY 3 (2014) A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF JUDE P. DOUGHERTY THE INTERNATIONAL ÉTIENNE GILSON SOCIETY SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL Urbano FERRER (University of Murcia, Spain) Curtis L. HANCOCK (Rockhurst Jesuit University, Kansas City, MO, USA) Henryk KIEREĝ (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Peter A. REDPATH (Adler-Aquinas Institute, Manitou Springs, CO, USA) Fr. James V. SCHALL, S.J. (Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA) Fr. Jan SOCHOē (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland) EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-chief Fr. Paweá TARASIEWICZ (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Associate Editors Donald COLLINS (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Jeremie SOLAK (Spring Arbor University, MI, USA) Subject Editors Varia Gilsoniana: Imelda CHàODNA-BàACH (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) & Varia Classica: Fr. Tomasz DUMA (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Linguistic Editors Stephen CHAMBERLAIN (Rockhurst Jesuit University, Kansas City, MO, USA) Thierry-Dominique HUMBRECHT, O.P. (J. Vrin’s Equip Gilson, France) Thaddeus J. KOZINSKI (Campion College, Toongabbie/Sydney, Australia) Florian MICHEL (Institut Pierre Renouvin, Paris, France) Ángel Damián ROMÁN ORTIZ (University of Murcia, Spain) Artur MAMCARZ-PLISIECKI (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Cover Designer Maágorzata SOSNOWSKA ISSN 2300-0066 © The International Étienne Gilson Society Address: Holy Apostles College & Seminary 33 Prospect Hill Road, Cromwell, CT 06416-2027, USA E-mail: [email protected] The paper edition of Studia Gilsoniana 3 (2014) is the reference version of the journal On-line edition: www.gilsonsociety.pl/studia-gilsoniana/3-2014 Printed in Poland Studia Gilsoniana 3 (2014): 7–8 | ISSN 2300–0066 CONTENTS Ŷ Foreword by Peter A. Redpath……………………………………..…..9 Ŷ The Bibliography of Jude P. Dougherty……………………………….13 Varia Gilsoniana Ŷ Richard J. Fafara: Gilson and Pascal………………………………….29 Varia Classica Ŷ Leo J. Elders, S.V.D.: Christopher Dawson…………………………49 Ŷ William A. Frank: Cicero, Retrieving the Honorable…………………63 Ŷ Paweá Gondek: The Place of Philosophy in the Contemporary Paradigm for the Practice of Science……………………………………………….85 Ŷ Catherine Green: Distinguishing the Sciences: For Nursing…………..97 Ŷ Maágorzata Jaáocho-Palicka: Thomas Aquinas’ Philosophy of Being as the Basis for Wojtyáa’s Concept and Cognition of Human Person……..127 Ŷ Natalia Kunat: The Good as the Motive of Human Action According to Mieczysáaw Albert Krąpiec……………………………………………..155 Ŷ V. Bradley Lewis: Democracy and Catholic Social Teaching: Continuity, Development, and Challenge……………………………………………167 Ŷ Eugene T. Long: Persons, Community and Human Diversity……….191 Ŷ Peter A. Redpath: The Essential Connection between Modern Science and Utopian Socialism………………………………………………….203 Ŷ Robert Sokolowski: Honor, Anger, and Belittlement in Aristotle’s Eth- ics………………………………………………………………………..221 Ŷ Anne M. Wiles: Forms and Predication Reconsidered………………241 Editio Secunda Ŷ Imelda Cháodna-Báach: The Crisis of American Education and Reforms Proposals According to Allan Bloom…………………………………..259 8 Contents Ŷ Tomasz Duma: To Know or to Think? The Controversy over the Under- standing of Philosophical Knowledge in the Light of the Studies of Mie- czysáaw A. Krąpiec………………………………………………………277 Ŷ Arkadiusz Gudaniec: Love as the Principle of the Dynamism of Beings. An analysis of the Arguments of St. Thomas Aquinas………………….301 Ŷ Piotr JaroszyĔski: Ontology: Unreal Reality..……………………….321 Ŷ Andrzej Maryniarczyk, S.D.B.: Bonum Sequitur Esse……………...335 Ŷ Zbigniew PaĔpuch: The Foundations of Classical Thought on the Sov- ereignty of the State…………………………………………………….347 Ŷ Peter Simpson: Aristotle on Natural Justice………………………….367 Ŷ Katarzyna StĊpieĔ: Synderesis and the Natural Law…………………377 Ŷ Paweá Tarasiewicz: The Servient Character of Political Power Accord- ing to St. Thomas Aquinas………………………………………………399 Ŷ John F. Wippel: Maritain and Aquinas on Our Discovery of Being…415 Ŷ Aknowledgements…………………………………………………….445 Studia Gilsoniana 3 (2014): 9–12 | ISSN 2300–0066 Peter A. Redpath Rector, Adler-Aquinas Institute Chair, St. John Paul II Thomistic Studies Graduate Concentration in Christian Wisdom, Holy Apostles College and Seminary USA FOREWORD Why This Festschrift for Jude Patrick Dougherty? Why in Studia Gilsoniana? That a festschrift should be given in honor of Jude P. Dougherty by an international journal focused on classical philosophy and the philoso- phical thought of Étienne Gilson needs no explanation considered in itself. In his masterly biography of Gilson, Fr. Laurence K. Shook makes a stun- ning statement about Gilson: that he was “an Erasmian humanist at heart, he wanted to end all wars and to liberate men to work out their own salva- tion in the context of personal freedom.”1 Shook claimed Gilson had thought that “medieval universalism, or ‘true humanism’ as Maritain called it, held the key to ultimate health in the human condition.”2 In making this reference to Gilson, Shook noted twelve lectures that Gilson had conducted during 1939 entitled “Roman Classical Culture from Cicero to Erasmus” in which Gilson traced the ideals of “Cicero’s doctus orator (‘the man of learning and eloquence’) and Quintillian’s vir bonus dicendi peritus (‘the good man who speaks from practical knowledge’) . from the beginning of Christianity to the sixteenth century as they rose, fell, rose again, and were transformed.”3 I mention these lectures by Gilson and the influence of classical humanism on him to make evident why this festschrift in honor of Jude Dougherty by Studia Gilsoniana should be evident considered in 1 Laurence K. Shook, Étienne Gilson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984), 254. 2 Id., 239. 3 Id. 10 Peter A. Redpath itself: Nothing is more fitting than for a journal devoted to classical hu- manism to honor a Ciceronian and Erasmian humanist. Jude Dougherty is very much a Renaissance man, a humanist in the Ciceronian and Erasmian tradition. As such, like many of the colleagues he has esteemed throughout his professional career (Ralph M. McInerny, Fr. James V. Schall, Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, Mortimer J. Adler), he is a lover of individual liberty, “a good man who speaks from practical knowledge,” and a “man of learning and eloquence.” His intellectual con- frère Ralph McInerny has well described the classically “cosmopolitan” ideal of a philosopher and “lover of wisdom” for which Jude is famous for being, “His is a household name in philosophy worldwide, and it can be said that he is the more esteemed by his secular colleagues because he is so unequivocally a Catholic philosopher.”4 More. As McInerny has rightly noted, in his person, Jude eminently captures the classical spirit of pietas, a man with a sense of unswerving honor and duty sorely missing within most of the contemporary world. A prime example of this eminent quality of soul was displayed by Jude in 1971 for which all students of Gilson and the International Étienne Gilson Society owe him a lasting debt. During that year, the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, of which Jude was then Dean, had “unanimously submitted Gilson’s name for an honorary degree.” Learning that the nomination had been quietly dropped at the committee stage and had not reached the academic senate, “Dean Jude Dougherty . expressed surprise that the unanimous nomination of a man of Gilson’s stature and service in the Catholic community had been dropped. The senate listened and in a secret ballot gave Gilson the highest number of votes of all candi- dates proposed that year.”5 Dougherty’s intervention on Gilson’s behalf did not stop there. Learning that, while Gilson had been invited to receive an honorary degree in human letters, and was pleased to accept, Gilson had not been offered, and could not afford, travel expenses for the transatlantic journey, Jude expressed surprise, contacted the University president, and had the over- sight corrected. Beyond this, he lobbied for Gilson to be invited to give the University’s convocation address. When this request was turned down, 4 Ralph M. McInerny, “Endnotes: The Dean Emeritus,” Crisis Magazine (September 1, 1999): http://www.crisismagazine.com/1999/end-notes-the-dean-emeritus, accessed on 30.12.2014. 5 Shook, Étienne Gilson, 386. Foreword 11 Dougherty wrote Gilson, still in France, and unaware of all this by- play, inviting him to deliver a “post-commencement” address for the School of Philosophy on the afternoon of Saturday, 15 May in Keane Auditorium. Gilson accepted and brought from France and address on the theme closest to him this year, ‘Evolution: From Ar- istotle to Darwin and Back.’ Dougherty sent out invitations to the faculty and students of Catholic University and of the other universities and colleges in the Washington area. As he expected, even though it was the day after the convocation and a Saturday afternoon, a wide spectrum of listeners came from all corners of Washington and remained with rapt attention right through to the end of the question period.6 On the intellectual side, Jude is through and through a student of St. Thomas in the best sense of the word. While celebrated for his decades- long work as editor of the Review of Metaphysics and trusted for the soundness of his scholarship and his reliability to produce scholarly work of the highest caliber, Jude is more than a scholar. As the bibliography contained within this volume indicates, Jude is not s thinker who parrots St. Thomas or a manual Thomist. He is an original thinker, a Christian philosopher, who, like Gilson and St. Thomas, mines the work of the an- cients to discover the truth about things and share it with others. All the above makes evident to readers unfamiliar with him and his work (if any exist) why Studia Gilsoniana should devote this festschrift to Jude Dougherty. But other reasons exist beyond those already mentioned about which readers should be made aware. One is the fact that this journal was founded in Poland with the assistance of several students heavily in- fluenced by the work of Gilson.