WYKŁAD METAFIZYKI OGÓLNEJ I FILOZOFII BOGA w WYŻSZYM SEMINARIUM DUCHOWNYM DIECEZJI SIEDLECKIEJ w LATACH 1919 - 2018

A teaching of generał metaphysics and the philosophy of God in the Major Sem- inary of the Diocese of Siedlce, 1919 - 2018

After the revival of the Siedlce Seminary in 1919, metaphysics was first taught as a part of the philosophy course according to the handbook Elementa philosophiae schola- sticae of S. Reinstadler in the spirit of traditional thomism.

After The Second World War, from the 1960s, the teaching refers to the way of prac- ticing metaphysics in the Lublin School of existential thomism. Today, it is also enriched with references to analytical thomism.

The main topics of the lecture are consistent with the classical, scholastic form of metaphysics presentation:

1. The problem of being
2. Transcendental properties and first principles
3. The structure of being (act and potency, substance and accidents, form and matter, essence and existence)
4. The analogy of being (especially in relation to existential thomism).

The content of the lecture on natural theology (theodicy) also reflects the scholastic tradition and covering the metaphysics of the First Reason (existence and nature of the Absolute) and the theological consequences resulting from it.