Ograniczenia Józefa M. Bocheńskiego OP analitycznej eksplanacji religii
Limitations of Józef M. Bocheński OP of analytic explication of religion

Summary/Abstract: What constitutes the object of this study is the critical analysis of the analytical explanation of Bocheński's religion. The reconstructions and analyzes performed can be presented in the following manner. It is the phenomenon of feeling religion by the faithful and not the nature of religion which is the object of interest in the philosophical analysis of religion as the logic of the religious language. Although the author uses the logic used in religious discourse, his analyzes do not contain the empirical material. According to the author's statements, it can be believed that this material consists mainly of Bocheński's personal way of faith, by the faith of his interlocutors as well as by his opinion of the fundament of religion. In the system of the logic of religion the problem of the reason of religion concerns only the justification of religious discourse. According to the nature of logic, it is not a question of what are the real reasons for faith but (according to Bocheński) it is rather a question of how the faithful justify their faith. Such a theory presupposes agnosticism or, at least, skepticism as to the rational and natural knowledge of God as well as a confusion of the reason of faith and the motives of truthfulness. The theory of authority and the hypothesis of religion suggests that the faithful as well as those with a certain logical culture motivate their faith in an irrational way. Verification or falsification of Bocheński's theory justifying religious discourse should be the subject of study for sociologists.

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