Józef M. Bocheński jako tomista

The aim of the paper is to present the fol­lowing, how Thomism was understood by Bocheński, next, path of Thomistic inspirations he had followed, and final­ly we show Thomism Bocheński had explored when teaching his own philo­sophical abbreviation (ABC tomizmu). Analysis based on these issues would al­low to identify the specific features of Thomism studied and explored by Bo­cheński. Hence, the question we might pose does not to regard the fact whether Bocheński was a Thomist or not but, what sort of Thomism he represented. Bocheński should rather be conside­red to be a traditional Thomist than existential one because in his philoso­phical work he barely treated the pro­blem of act of existence and importance of this particular problem. However, he refrained from adopting the method fun­damental for traditional Thomism, which is strict adherence (fidelity) to so­urce texts of Aquinas. Bocheński, in be­ing open to achievements of contempo­rary philosophy, especially logic, was closer to Louvain Thomism. But, he ne­ver decided to implement modern scien­tific trends to philosophy of Aquinas, the tendency which was foreign to the very essence of philosophy, at least in its sha­pe understood by Bocheński. In his philosophical views Bocheński was closer to Aristotle and the Aristote­lian tradition. And because he preferred to follow Aristotelian realism he con­sequently kept that stance. His interest in analysis the utterances of Thomism from a perspective of logic allow to clas­sify Bocheński to analytical Thomism, but we should remember that in times contemporary to Bocheński, the very notion of analytical Thomism had not been coined. The aforementioned conc­lusions allow to recognize originality of Thomistic thought represented by Bo­cheński and also, to admit that Bocheński’s thought cannot be classified univo­cally to a particular school of Thomism