SITA Ungheria

Chronicle of conference of the Hungarian SITA

The Hungarian Thomas Aquinas Society held her annual conference and General Assembly March 6-7^th 2009 at Campus of the Catholic University, Piliscsaba. The main topic of conference was: Thomas Aquinas and Thomism of Today - Tradition, Interpretation and Perspectives.

On Friday, March 6^th in the afternoon István Cselényi, president of Hungarian SITA opened the meeting, interpreted greetings of Abelardo Lobato OP, former president of SITA and PAST, founder of Hungarian Society, made acquainted relation of Father Lobato (Actuality of St. Thomas Aquinas), and held own lecture (Ontology of Summa Theologica). He was the chairperson afternoon and following forenoon too. The other speakers were:
Marco Lamanna from Università di Bari, Italy (Ens and intelligibile: a test for Aquinas' Metaphysics), Prof. László Boda from PPKE, Budapest (Thomas Aquinas and intellectual virtues), Bulcsu K. Hoppál (from IAP-PUC, Chile (What do we know when we preapprehend?) and József Kormos (PPKE, Piliscsaba): Erkenntnis – Glaube – Unterricht; Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Denken von Thomas von Aquin und Edith Stein. The evening was closed by a reception and Hungarian folk music.
On Saturday the opening relation was of Balázs Mezei from PPKE-BTK, Institute of Philosophy, Piliscsaba (Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Evil), after him came:

Richard Blum from Loyola College in Maryland, USA (Thomas' Argumente für die Unsterblichkeit der Seele zwischen Metaphysik und Existenzphilosophie), Miss Zita Veronika Tóth, Budapest (Aquinas and Buridan on the Possibility of Scientific Knowledge), Inocent-Mária V. Szaniszló, OP from Katholische Universität Ružomberok, Slovakia (Ist das Denken des Hl. Thomas von Aquin heute aktuell?) After the lunch was held the General Assembly of the Hungarian Thomas Aquinas Society. To president was chosen István Cselényi of news, to director Bulcsú Kál-Hoppál and to member of presidency Mr. Kormos.

The afternoon the chairman was the new director. The next lectures was: Miss Zsófia Árik, Budapest (Thomas Aquinas and the Rival Process Theology: Static and Dynamic View of God), Marko J. Fuchs from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (Gerechtigkeit, Recht und Naturgesetz bei Thomas von Aquin), Tamás Nyirkos from ELTE, Budapest (Love and Make War? - The Context of ST II-II, 40), Stephen Chamberlain from Providence College, USA (The Nature and Function of the Id In Quo in Contemporary Thomism), Peter Volek from Katholische Universität Ružomberok, Slovakia (Grundlagen der personalen Identität nach Thomas von Aquin), Vilmos Voigt from ELTE, Budapest (Astrologues, magiciens, witches according to Summa contra Gentiles), Miss Zsuzsanna Mészáros, Budapest (The universale discussion and the modern relativistic physics) and Daniel Heider from University of South Bohemia, Chech Republic (Metaphysics of Universals in John Poinsot´s Material Logic). After the papers was held discussions. István Cselényi sayd the Closing Words.