O filozofii z dystansu, czyli w 40 lat później
On philosophy from a distance – forty years later

A concise essay

Author(s): Paweł Kaczorowski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: philosophy; reason; absolute knowledge; philosophical system; Plato; Plato’s cave; truth about essence; love; sacrifice of Jesus Christ
Summary/Abstract: In an essayistic form and personal tone, the author points out the negative aspects of philosophical cognition. They include: excessive, peculiar ambitions and loftiness of philosophers, their unjustified proneness to act as humanity’s functionaries, epistemic promises impossible to fulfil, unavoidable yet disguised individualism of the formulated views, which are to be both objective and universally valid, specific mysticism of the cognitive approach – contrary to its declared methodicalness and rationality, the vagueness of the subject of philosophical enquiries, flagrant contradictions among various viewpoints, the destructive character of knowledge which highlights problems but does not solve them. At the same time, the author points to the need and possibility of the inventive use of the achievements of European philosophical tradition.

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