Mateusz Stróżyński
Biographic Data
| ID | 1483533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mateusz Stróżyński |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mateusz |
| FAMILY NAME | Stróżyński |
| SIGNATURE | STRÓŻYŃSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1881-8965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jesuits, Jansenists, and the Culture Wars
This introductory article explores the relevance of studying the Jesuit-Jansenist conflict in early modern France against the broader background of modernity as such and its inherent problems with fragmentation, isolation, and polarization in all areas of culture. It begins with a reference to the particular use of the study of early modernity and its religious and sociopolitical problems by the two prominent dissidents of the twentieth century, …
Blaise Pascal and the Platonic Heart
The article analyzes the concept of the heart in Blaise Pascal’s (1623–62) Pensées in the context of the Platonic tradition. Augustine (354–430) is described as the main author who mediated to Pascal Plotinus’s view of nous as the intuitive and integrative faculty, superior to discursive and conceptual reason, which can be, ultimately, identified with Pascal’s coeur . The heart in Pascal’s philosophy is seen as the response to his diagnosis of mo…
Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus
The purpose of the article is to reconstruct a type of spiritual exercise that can be found in Plotinus’ Enneads and which I propose to call the “deictic method.” It differs from a more recognized type of exercise, namely, ascent, because it is based on the nonhierarchical view of reality that can be found in some of Plotinus’ treatises. The framework of the exercise is Plotinus’ belief that the One is already present in the human soul and its co…
The Ascent of the Soul as Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus’ Enneads
The purpose of the article is to demonstrate that the ascent of the soul as one of the fundamental spiritual exercises in Plotinus’ philosophy can be approached from three perspectives: anabatic proper, aphaeretic and agnoetic. All of them are based on the hierarchical structure of knowledge and being in Plotinus’ philosophy, but they differ in details. The methods are reconstructed on the basis of the analysis of selected passages from the Ennea…
Augustine on Loving Too Much
The article analyzes the friendship narratives contained in Books Two, Three and Four of Augustine’s Confessions , treating them not as biographical accounts, but as illustrations of Augustine’s philosophical ideas, namely, the fall of the soul and the role played in it by love. All those narratives seem to describe a homoerotic dimension of friendship. It is argued that making such homoerotic friendship, and not heterosexual love between man and…
The Fall of the Soul in Book Two of Augustine's Confessions
The purpose of the paper is to show a mutual interaction of Platonic and Christian ideas in the pear theft narrative from Book Two of the Confessions. Augustine is provocatively questioning the Platonic theory of good, evil, and love by suggesting that in the theft he loved evil itself. He is considering three possible explanations, but is not fully content with any of them. Not having any better theory than the Platonic one, Augustine is suggest…
The Aporetic Method in Plotinus’ Enneads
There seem to be two tendencies in the Plotinian scholarship concerning spiritual method of the Enneads. First is more general and the other more specific and focused on the analysis of the text. The paper follows the second type of study and attempts to present and analyze Plotinian use of aporia as a spiritual exercise. Traditionally aporia was used as a point of departure for philosophical discussion (e.g. by Aristotle) and sometimes Plotinus …
Visus iste non a carne trahebatur. Rola zmysłów w kontemplacji w księdze VII i IX "Wyznań" Augustyna
The purpose of the paper is to examine the role of the senses in contemplation in Book Seven and Nine of Augustine’s Confessions. The bishop of Hippo’s conception of contemplation is deeply influenced by Plotinus, especially in the early period, and this influence is present e.g. in the distiniguishing of two forms of contemplation: the one in which all sensible objects are eliminated from awareness and the one in which they are present or used…
There is No Searching for the Self
This article explores the conception of self-knowledge in book 10 of Augustine’s De Trinitate . Augustine starts from the worry in Plato’s Meno that one cannot search for something entirely unknown and engages with Plotinus, Ennead 5.3 in developing his own understanding of the mind’s self-knowledge. He concludes that this knowledge is paradoxical in nature: it is necessary and, at the same time, futile; and it is separated from the knowledge of …
Augustine on Loving Too Much
The article analyzes the friendship narratives contained in Books Two, Three and Four of Augustine’s Confessions , treating them not as biographical accounts, but as illustrations of Augustine’s philosophical ideas, namely, the fall of the soul and the role played in it by love. All those narratives seem to describe a homoerotic dimension of friendship. It is argued that making such homoerotic friendship, and not heterosexual love between man and…
Visus iste non a carne trahebatur. Rola zmysłów w kontemplacji w księdze VII i IX "Wyznań" Augustyna
The purpose of the paper is to examine the role of the senses in contemplation in Book Seven and Nine of Augustine’s Confessions. The bishop of Hippo’s conception of contemplation is deeply influenced by Plotinus, especially in the early period, and this influence is present e.g. in the distiniguishing of two forms of contemplation: the one in which all sensible objects are eliminated from awareness and the one in which they are present or used…
There is No Searching for the Self
This article explores the conception of self-knowledge in book 10 of Augustine’s De Trinitate . Augustine starts from the worry in Plato’s Meno that one cannot search for something entirely unknown and engages with Plotinus, Ennead 5.3 in developing his own understanding of the mind’s self-knowledge. He concludes that this knowledge is paradoxical in nature: it is necessary and, at the same time, futile; and it is separated from the knowledge of …
The Aporetic Method in Plotinus’ Enneads
There seem to be two tendencies in the Plotinian scholarship concerning spiritual method of the Enneads. First is more general and the other more specific and focused on the analysis of the text. The paper follows the second type of study and attempts to present and analyze Plotinian use of aporia as a spiritual exercise. Traditionally aporia was used as a point of departure for philosophical discussion (e.g. by Aristotle) and sometimes Plotinus …
The Fall of the Soul in Book Two of Augustine's Confessions
The purpose of the paper is to show a mutual interaction of Platonic and Christian ideas in the pear theft narrative from Book Two of the Confessions. Augustine is provocatively questioning the Platonic theory of good, evil, and love by suggesting that in the theft he loved evil itself. He is considering three possible explanations, but is not fully content with any of them. Not having any better theory than the Platonic one, Augustine is suggest…
Augustine on Loving Too Much
The article analyzes the friendship narratives contained in Books Two, Three and Four of Augustine’s Confessions , treating them not as biographical accounts, but as illustrations of Augustine’s philosophical ideas, namely, the fall of the soul and the role played in it by love. All those narratives seem to describe a homoerotic dimension of friendship. It is argued that making such homoerotic friendship, and not heterosexual love between man and…
The Ascent of the Soul as Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus’ Enneads
The purpose of the article is to demonstrate that the ascent of the soul as one of the fundamental spiritual exercises in Plotinus’ philosophy can be approached from three perspectives: anabatic proper, aphaeretic and agnoetic. All of them are based on the hierarchical structure of knowledge and being in Plotinus’ philosophy, but they differ in details. The methods are reconstructed on the basis of the analysis of selected passages from the Ennea…
Spiritual Exercise in Plotinus
The purpose of the article is to reconstruct a type of spiritual exercise that can be found in Plotinus’ Enneads and which I propose to call the “deictic method.” It differs from a more recognized type of exercise, namely, ascent, because it is based on the nonhierarchical view of reality that can be found in some of Plotinus’ treatises. The framework of the exercise is Plotinus’ belief that the One is already present in the human soul and its co…
Jesuits, Jansenists, and the Culture Wars
This introductory article explores the relevance of studying the Jesuit-Jansenist conflict in early modern France against the broader background of modernity as such and its inherent problems with fragmentation, isolation, and polarization in all areas of culture. It begins with a reference to the particular use of the study of early modernity and its religious and sociopolitical problems by the two prominent dissidents of the twentieth century, …
Blaise Pascal and the Platonic Heart
The article analyzes the concept of the heart in Blaise Pascal’s (1623–62) Pensées in the context of the Platonic tradition. Augustine (354–430) is described as the main author who mediated to Pascal Plotinus’s view of nous as the intuitive and integrative faculty, superior to discursive and conceptual reason, which can be, ultimately, identified with Pascal’s coeur . The heart in Pascal’s philosophy is seen as the response to his diagnosis of mo…
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Soul (4 works) · Contemplation (3 works)