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The Department’s research and teaching activities are dedicated to the thorough analysis of the philosophical considerations, starting from ancient philosophy, through early Jewish and Christian philosophy, Scholasticism, to their contemporary philosophical interpretations. The most important focal points include: the sources and specificity of Greek pre-Platonic philosophy, axiology, the philosophy of language, allegoresis as the method of interpretation (the Stoics, Philo, Origen), ancient metaphysics and ethics (Aristotle), scholastic metaphysics and ethics – including contemporary analytical metaphysics and analytical theory of action (approached historically and systematically)  – as well as the reception of ancient philosophy, starting from patristics, through the Medieval reception of Greek culture, renaissance, to the 20th century.