Editors
Imelda Chłodna-Błach
(dr. hab.) is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Culture and Rhetoric within the Faculty of Philosophy at the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin. Her interests include issues related to the philosophy of culture and civilization, philosophy of education, and the art of rhetoric. She is a member of editorial committees of two scientific journals: Man in Culture and Annals of Cultural Studies. She is also a member of the Polish Society of Thomas Aquinas, the Learned Society of the John Paul ii, Catholic University of Lublin, The International Étienne Gilson Society, The Adler-Aquinas Institute, and The Gabriel Marcel Society. In addition to teaching philosophy and rhetoric at the University of Lublin, she instructs rhetoric and cultural sciences at the Higher School of Social and Media Culture in Toruń, Poland (within the Department of Journalism, Political Science, and Cultural Studies).
Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki
(dr. hab.) is presently Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin, within the Department of Philosophy of Culture and Rhetoric. His research interests include: rhetoric, philosophy of culture (esp. theory of civilization, theory of film, theory of audio-visual culture), and philosophy of politics. He teaches rhetoric and philosophy of culture (esp. European cultural identity). He is author of many articles on the philosophy of culture, philosophy of civilization, rhetoric, and linguistics. His has authored the monograph Philosophy and Rhetoric of the Film. Perspective of Philosophical Realism (in Polish), and is co-editor with A. Maryniarczyk, N. Gondek, and A. Mamcarz-Plisiecki of Dispute about Metaphysics. On the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Professor Mieczysław Krąpiec: Tasks of Modern Metaphysics, no. 21 (in Polish).
Peter A. Redpath
retired Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University, New York, is author/editor/co-editor of seventeen philosophical books and many dozens of articles and book reviews. An internationally recognized scholar, he has given over 200 invited guest lectures nationally and internationally. He is ceo of the Aquinas School of Leadership, llc and co-founder of the Gilson Society (USA) and
Contributors
Adam L. Barborich
is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language Teaching at South Eastern University of Sri Lanka and in the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the University of Sri Jayawardenepura. He also lectures in the induction program for civil service cadets and trains military officers at the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration. His specialty is early Buddhist and comparative philosophy, particularly in the areas of aesthetics and metaphysics.
Rafał Charzyński
holds a Master’s degree in Theology from the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin and a Doctoral degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. In 2017, he obtained postdoctoral degree in Philosophy. He works in the History of Philosophy in Poland at the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin. His scientific interests focus on the foundations of morality and the history of Neo-Scholasticism in Poland. Author (all in Polish) of two monographs, The Freedom as the Fundament of Morality in Jacques Maritain and The Problem of Polemic–Apologetic Character of Polish Neo-Scholasticism, he has published many articles, including “A Neo-Thomistic Formulation of Natural Law as the Basis of Human Rights; “A Christian Philosophy and Christian Worldview According to Piotr Chojnacki”; “Controversies Related to the Autonomy of Thomism”; “Gabryl’s Critique of Catholic Romanticism”; “Idzi Radziszewski as Philosopher”; and “Anthropological and Theistic Foundation of the Ethics of Trentowski.”
Wojciech Daszkiewicz
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Metaphysics at the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin. Author of publications on the metaphysics and philosophy of culture, his most important monographs include: Intellectual Intuition in Metaphysics (in Polish) and Being–Human Culture: A Study in the
Tomasz Duma
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Metaphysics of the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin. His interests include metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of God, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He has lectured at the University of Natural Sciences in Lublin, Lublin University of Technology, and at the Institute of Religious Sciences, Gródek, Ukraine. He has also delivered lectures at many international conferences, including in Boston, Massachusetts, Bologna, Italy, Athens, Greece, and Barcelona, Spain. He has published two monographs: Act and Potency in Realistic Philosophy: Gallus Manser’s Interpretation of the Theory of Act and Potency and Metaphysics of Relations: At the Basis of Understanding Living Relationships (both in Polish). He is the author of many scientific articles, encyclopedia entries, and he has been editor of collective volumes.
Maria Joanna Gondek
(dr. hab.) is Associate Professor and member of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Her academic interests concern the philosophical foundations of rhetoric and the philosophy of culture. In addition to publishing in professional journals, she is author of the monograph, Philosophical Foundations of Deliberative Acts in the Peripatetic Tradition (in Polish).
Arkadiusz Gudaniec
is Professor in the Department of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Law at the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin His main areas of research include the problems of personal existence (esse personale), and the unity of human being, realistic metaphysics of the person, and the philosophical concept of love. Author of two monographs (in Polish): The Paradox of Disinterested Love: A Study in Philosophical Anthropology Based on St. Thomas Aquinas’s Writings and At the Basis of the Ontic Unity of a Human Being: A
Piotr Jaroszyński
(dr. hab.) is currently Professor of Philosophy at John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, is an internationally renowned philosophical scholar with emphasis on metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, art, culture, science, and rhetoric. He has authored approximately 140 include articles published in Polish, English, Lithuanian, and Spanish. He has delivered lectures at over sixty international congresses (Polish) in over ten countries, and has organized annual, international “The Future of Western Civilization” conferences. He also works with the Erasmus program (European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the philosophical yearbook, Man in Culture (Polish).
Joanna Kiereś-Łach
in addition to her doctorate in philosophy, is a graduate in cultural studies, a certified business trainer, and lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin, where she teaches rhetoric. She also teaches philosophy and knowledge of culture at the high school level, and is author of the monograph Rhetoric and Philosophy: Intellectual Context of the New Rhetoric of Chaim Perelman, as well as scientific articles in the field of philosophy, rhetoric, and argumentation.
Jason Morgan
holds his Masters in Asian Studies (China focus) from the University of Hawai’i and doctorate in Japanese legal history from the University of Wisconsin. He is Associate Professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. He has published articles in many journals and he is the English language translator of Hata Ikuhiko’s scholarly classic on the history of the comfort women. He has co-translated an introduction to Japanese history. He has authored the monograph, Law and Society in Imperial Japan. Morgan is the editor of Information Regimes and the Cold War in East Asia. He has published six other books in Japanese and contributes regularly to Japanese language journals. He is an op-ed columnist with the Sankei Shimbun newspaper and a research fellow at the Institute of Moralogy in Kashiwa and the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies in Tokyo.
is a government economist and researcher in classical philosophy and the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas. The focus of his research is the application of commonsense philosophical principles in the social sciences with a particular emphasis in economics. He regularly applies commonsense principles when leading and managing the data collection activities of a high performing professional team of economists in his work with a premier US federal statistical agency. He has designed and delivered training programs on both regional and national levels for improving the work efficiency of government economists. He was a co-editor of “A Return to Pre-Modern Principles of Economic Science: An Editors’ Introduction,” in the inaugural issue of Studia Gilsoniana (October-December 2019) and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in economics and public affairs at the City College of New York, USA.
Robert T. Ptaszek
is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Catholic University of Lublin. He belongs to the Polish Philosophical Society, the Learned Society of the John Paul ii Catholic University of Lublin, and the Polish Society of Thomas Aquinas (a branch of Societa Internazionale Tommaso d’Aquino). He has authored over 150 publications, including many lexicographical articles pertaining to his fields of expertise, including philosophy of religion, alternative (new) religious movements, philosophical anthropology, interreligious dialogue, and philosophy of culture. His main work is the monograph New Age of Religion? The ‘New Age’ Movement and its Doctrine under Philosophical Scrutiny (in Polish). He has served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine: Drohiczyński Przegląd Naukowy. Multicultural Studies of the Drohiczyn Learned Society (2008–2018) and is currently the thematic editor (theory of religion) of the magazine Annals of Cultural Studies.
Katarzyna Stępień
is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Philosophy at the John Paul ii Catholic University in Lublin. Her areas of interest include philosophy of law and human rights, philosophical anthropology, realist metaphysics. She is the author Philosophical Sources of the Dispute about Understanding the Rights of the Child. A Study in the Philosophy of Law and Human Rights(in Polish) and In Search of the Basics of Rationality of Law(in Polish) as well as nearly eighty scientific and encyclopedic articles, mainly in the first Polish