Original scientific paper

Zimmermann's Epistemological polemic with Hijacint Bošković

Dario Škarica ; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

In the polemic between the Croatian neo-scholastic philosophers, Hijacint Bošković and Stjepan Zimmermann, conducted in 1931–1932 in the journal Bogoslovska smotra, two different approaches to the problem of knowledge clashed. Bošković's approach to the problem is ideogenetic, in the tradition of medieval Thomism. His solution of the problem does not surpass the framework of Aquinas’ epistemological theses, it assumes ontological realism and uses the syllogistic method. Zimmermann considers such an approach to be anachronistic: it is not possible to justify the scholastic epistemological objectivism and realism on the grounds of a presumed ontological realism and by an ideogenetic approach and the syllogistic method. The problem of knowledge is to be accepted in its modern, particularly Kant’s formulation. Epistemological objectivism and realism are to be justified within the framework of modern epistemology.

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Hrčak ID:

68580

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68580

Publication date:

1.12.2003.

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