David Svoboda • Prokop Sousedík • Lukáš Novák (eds.)
Second Scholasticism — Analytical Metaphysics — Christian Apologetics
Essays in Honour of Stanislav Sousedík
Abstract
Second scholasticism, analytical metaphysics, and Christian apologetics are the three topics characteristic of the lifelong efforts of the eminent Czech philosopher Stanislav Sousedík, who celebrated his 90th birthday in 2021. To honour this anniversary, a conference named accordingly was organized in Prague. The papers presented at this event — further elaborated by their authors and supplemented with Sousedík’s remarkable “Brief Autobiography” — constitute the gist of this book: a collective homage to Professor Sousedík and an attempt to promote and develop his intellectual legacy.
About the Editors
David Svoboda is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Law, Charles University, Prague. In his work, he focuses on metaphysics and philosophical anthropology. He is the author of Metafyzické myšlení Tomáše Akvinského [The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas] (2012), Metafyzika vztahů [The Metaphysics of Relations] (2017) and co-author of Je matematika věda? [Is Mathematics a Science?] (2018) and Change and Realtions (2023).
Prokop Sousedík is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Law, Charles University, Prague. He works in the fields of logic, epistemology and ontology. He is the author of Logika pro studenty humanitních oborů [Logic for the Humanities Students] and co-author of Je matematika věda? [Is Mathematics a Science?] (2018) and Change and Realtions (2023).
Lukáš Novák is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. In his research he focuses on metaphysics, epistemology, and medieval and early modern scholasticism (especially Duns Scotus and early modern Scotism). In addition to three (co-)authored monographs in Czech, he wrote Relations as Accidental Forms (2023) and (co-)edited, among others, Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (2012), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (2014), Suárez’s Metaphysics in Its Historical and Systematic Context (2014), and Dispelling the Fog: Critical Essays on Amoris Lætitia (2022). He is editor of Studia Neoaristotelica: A Journal of Analytical Scholasticism.