Obecność filozofii tomistycznej w polemice Piotra Semenenki z Andrzejem Towiańskim

The presenting article presents the main themes of Piotr Semenenko polemics with Andrzej Towiański, which took place in the environment of the Great Emigration. It concerned many matters, including some philosophical ideas related to the Catholic faith. They belonged mainly to fhe field of interest in the philosophy of cognition, general theory of being, philosophy of God and religion, angelology, philosophy of man and philosophy of history. Semenenko’s polemic with Towiański resulted from their representing different philosophical traditions. The first referred essentially to Thomistic philosophy, while the second drew from ideas to Neoplatonic philosophy and the currents of thought that were close to it, which cannot be reconciled with the Thomistic and Christian vision of the world, especially in the matter of understanding its most important elements, which are God and the human person. The use of Thomism in the fight against Towianism has shown that it is the form of Christian philosophy that best serves the Catholic faith as its intellectual foundation, which seems important in the context of current discussions about the doctrinal shape of this faith and its threats from religious syncretism.