Back Piotr Jaroszynski
Professor Piotr Jaroszynski was born in 1955. He has studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin, from which he got a doctoral degree in 1983. In 1991 he became the Chair of the Department of Philosophy of Culture and he presently works as the professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Lublin.
Since 1992, is the editor in chief of a magazine entitled Czlowiek w kulturze [Man in Culture]. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Powszechna Encyklopedia Filozofii [Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy], published by Polish Society of Thomas Aquinas. He also serves as the president of the Lublin School of Christian Philosophy.
Lecture: Liturgy and Metaphysics
Friday, 30th of October 10.00
The controversy concerning liturgy can be analyzed in different sciences and from many points of view. Especially important seems to be theology, for it is a question of religion, and semiotics, for it is a question of sign in its multidimensional relations. However, knowledge which is often neglected is philosophy, and especially metaphysics. Because if we want to understand in a rational and realistic way what and what for is liturgy we must take into account not only what we mean by sign, but above all what is reality. And the science which has been occupied with reality since the time of Aristotle, with being qua being, is exactly metaphysics. In the light of metaphysics, which is a human way to attain the deepest core of reality, one can reflect upon sign and upon its relation to divinity. Without realistic metaphysics it is easy to convert theology into mythology, and liturgy into magic. Therefore metaphysics seems to be indispensable for the proper understanding of the place of liturgy in Christian religion.
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