Professor, the chief of the Department of Metaphysics of the The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
- 1950: born in Witków near Zakopane
- 1970-1976: study in philosophy and theology in the Seminary of the Salesian Society in Kraków
- 1976-1979: study in philosophy in the Catholic University of Lublin
- 1983: PhD degree in Department of Philosophy CUL on the base of the thesis “The method of separation and the Thomism”, promoter: professor Mieczysław A. Krąpiec OP
- 1980-1987: vice-director and director of the study in the Seminary of the Salesian Society in Kraków
- 1984: the commission lectures on the selected questions of metaphysics at the Catholic University of Lublin
- 1987: beginning to work a full time job at the Chair of Metaphysics in the Catholic University of Lublin
- 1991: qualification for the assistant professor on the base of the treatise “System of metaphysics. An analyze of an objective-and-rallying cognition” (approved by CCK in 1992)
- 1995: an associate professor at the Chair of Metaphysics CUL
- 1996: the director of the Chair and Institute of Metaphysics
- 1999: the chief of the Theoretical Philosophy Section in CUL
- 2001: obtaining the formal and state title of professor
Domains of researching
Questions from the methodology of metaphysics
- problematic of the method of the realistic metaphysics (separation)
- specification of a “system” of the realistic metaphysics
- specification of the language of metaphysics, and of the explanation and justification in metaphysics
- the limits of applying logic to metaphysics
- metaphysics and ontologies
Issues of the theory of metaphysical cognition
- specific character of metaphysical cognition (cognition through statements)
- the existential statements and their role in realistic cognition
- the transcendentals and metaphysical principles and their role in comprehensive cognition of reality
- the problematics of the truth and rationality
- analogy of beings and analogy of cognition
Selected questions of metaphysics
- problem of substance and of its role in metaphysical cognition
- causes and effects of pushing the substance aside and off in modern and contemporary philosophy
- the fundamentals of rationality and finality of the world
- the basis of the metaphysical theory of creation of the world (creatio ex nihilo)
- the being compositions and their function in explaining the nature of beings
- question of causes and of causal cognition
Issues of philosophy of law
- metaphysical basis of philosophy of law
- the nature and the natural law
- a being status of law
Issues of philosophical anthropology
- basis of forming the understanding a man as a person
- transcendence of human being theoretical and practical consequences
- problem of a being unity of a man: soul-mind-body
- application of the being-compositions to determining the limits of medical experiments
- application of the theory of the act and potential to explanation of actualization of human being
Scholarships
- 1984: Munich
- 1993: Toronto
- 1997: Leuven
Membership in scientific societies or associations
- Scientific Society of the Catholic University of Lublin (CUL)
- Polish Thomas Aquinas Association
- Lublin Philosophical Society
- Società Internazionale Tommaso d'Aquino
- American Association of Catholic Philosophers
- American Society of Christian Philosophers
- Pontificia Academia di S. Tommaso, Rome