Bali？'s Approach

Sa？etak The main aim of this paper is to provide an integrated exposition of Bali？'s neo-scholastic approach. Various statements pertinent to the approach, mostly isolated from one another and scattered through Bali？'s works towards the very middle of the 20th century, were studied to serve as a basis for the exposition. As a result, three main features of Bali？'s approach were identified: firstly, the historical-critical method (explicitly preferred to the speculative approach); secondly, a sturdy adherence to Roman Catholic dogma as a norm for evaluating philosophical systems; and, thirdly, the insistent endorsement of the principle of intellectual freedom and openness to various scholastic systems as well as to modern philosophy and science (restricted only by dogma). In addition, this paper introduces some new arguments for the influence of Louvainneo-scholasticism on the formation of Bali？'s approach