Filozoficzne aspekty człowieczeństwa w ujęciu J.M. Bocheńskiego

The content of the article concerns the philosophical views of the famous Dominican J. Bocheński on the structure of human existence. Bocheński himself divided his work into the neo-romantic and analytical periods. The article uses this division and focuses more on Bocheński’s later philosophical views. One of the reasons was that his neotomistic anthropological views had already been discussed in the book K. Policki, entitled: The philosophy of man in the early work of J.I.M. Bocheński. The presented article presents the structural elements of man, along with his powers. Then it deals with topics related to humanity. That is why the following parts of the paper are devoted to various areas of human activity and humanism. It seems that despite the changes in his philosophical views declared by Bocheński, he still remained an Aristotelian. It is manifested in the way of perceiving man from the perspective of his essence and accepting the spiritual and body unity. Moreover, Bocheński adopts the hegemony of the intellect in human activities (despite the declaration that, according to him, man does not differ from an animal). Since Bocheński readily expressed mutually exclusive views, it should be emphasized that establishing his position on the metaphysical structure of man is not an easy task.