PRANAS DOVYDAITIS IR FILOSOFIJA
Pranas Dovydaitis and Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses and evaluates philosophical views on natural sciences and humanities of the signatory of the Act of Lithuanian Independence in 1918, Chair of the History of Religions, Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University, professor Pranas Dovydaitis (1886- 1942). The author demonstrates that the program of "universal renewal in Christ", declared by Pranas Dovydaitis already in the beginning of his ideological activities along with other Lithuanian neo-Thomists of the interwar period, professors of Kaunas University, remained neither created nor realized. It is emphasized that causes of such outcome were neither lack of time nor shortage of intellectual powers, but rather impossibility of its realization in principle, as science can neither support nor deny the existence of God: it has no means to argue "for" or "against" these positions, because it follows completely different tasks. By attempting to substantiate an opposite view, the Lithuanian neo-Thomists only demonstrated naïveté and immaturity of their theories and worldviews.

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