Piotra Semenenki próba odnowy filozofii klasycznej

Father Piotr Semenenko (1814-1886), one of the founders of Collegium Resurrectianum – the catholic order originally servig Polish migrants and refugees – created a unique philosophical system meant to reunite classical philosophy and the modern one on the ground of the contemporary natural science. The central point of his theory is the concept of force grasped as the third metaphysical element of being along with the traditional act and potency. The article portrays the scholar himself and presents the main accomplishments of his thought – the actualization of classical scholasticism and natural science as well as the rectification of modern philosophy. Further, there is also an outline given of his philosophical system, notably on the topic of the metaphysical and epistemological conception of force.