S onu stranu dogmatizma i relativizma

Author(s): Lino Veljak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03-04/2012

In diesem Aufsatz wird das Problem der Wahrheit diskutiert. Der Begriff der Wahrheit stellt das Zentrum der durch die Philosophie hergestellte Emanzipation der Menschheit von der Dominierung vom Doxa und Dogma dar. Heute ist die Wahrheit wegen dogmatisches Missbrauches dieses Begriffs ein fragwürdlicher Begriff geworden. Doch ist die Wahrheit nicht nur ein Problem der Erkenntnistheorie sondern sie stellt auch das Problem des wahren Lebens dar. Die Rehabilitierung dieser Begriff jenseits (religiöses, ideologisches, essentialistisches, wissenschaftliches, usw.) Dogmatismus als auch jenseits postmodernistisches Relativismus sollte eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für das kritische Selbstbewusstseinwerden und damit für die Aufhebung falscher Alternativen darstellen.

(rec.) Teresa Obolevitch, Filozofia rosyjskiego renesansu patrystycznego, Copernicus Center, Kraków 2014

Author(s): Justyna Kroczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2015

NEPRIOPĆIVOST NUMINOZNOG U TEORIJI RUDOLFA OTTOA

Author(s): Marija Todorovska / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2015

The sacred, called “numinous” in Rudolf Otto’s religious theory is an ineffable force permeating diverse world-fragments, exteriorising itself through various phenomena and having a tremendous significance for the believer. The numinous is analysed in its specific elements in Otto’s theory, as completely opposed to the ordinary, profane reality: mysterium tremendum and mysterium fascinans. In this text the idea of the numinous as having an unspecified “surplus” meaning and, thus, importance, is briefly explored. The problems of lack of verbal expression of the emotional experience of the sacred are outlined, both in a broader apophatical context, as well as particularly related to the impossibility to encase and explain the numinal nature except as emotionally experienced by homo religiosus.

U KAVEZU ISPRAZNOSTI

Author(s): Miroslav Volf / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 14/1994

At the end ot The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Max Weber compared the "tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order" which has come to determine "the lives of all individuals who are born into" it, "with an irresistible force" to "iron cage." Taking its departure from an analysis of the ancient book of Ecclesiasts, the present article attempts first a theological examination of the character of "the cage" and its rootedness in insatiability, that is inherent to human nature. Second, the article examines the possible complicity of religion in the creation and maintenance of the cage of vanities. In the last section the article seeks to offer a way out, by claiming that the mystery of the infinite God is the only proper object of human insatiability.

Понятието „Логос“ във философията на Мартин Хайдегер и Григорий Палама

Author(s): Lyudmil Petrov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

For Heidegger, the Logos is а „gathering together” of being from its disclosure in the existent, and as such, the concept always implies and enters into a connection with the existent. Within the framework of Palamite theology, the same can be said, with astonishing consistency, about man within the space of the ontotes, the living space revealed by God to the existent, inasmuch as in man, as in the existent, being flashes forth. Man receives it as a “grace” within himself, entering with his own being into a connection with God by grace (kata harin); man “gathers together” within himself, most really, God's being ad extra, and thus, by communicating with God, exercises "logic" in the Heideggerian sense. The trinitarian and oikonomian dimension by the Son (Logos) finds in man the same correspondence – through human being in the sense of Heidegger’s Logos. The two (dia) indicate that the being gathered through the Son, and also through man, is included in the communication between the Creator and creation.

Theodicy as God's portraiture

Author(s): Miłosz Puczydłowski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The aim of this paper is to examine one of the best known and most frequently disapproved philosophical ideas: namely, theodicy. Some classical arguments formulated by Plotinus, Augustine, and Leibniz are examined. Then, Kant’s harsh critique of theodicy is introduced. The main aim of our suggested reinterpretation of the classical debate is to employ a new definition of evil formulated by Richard Kearney. Having considered evil as ‘something that must be actively contested’, the theodicean reasoning should be reimagined. The paper will advance from the rational vindication of God’s goodness and justice to the portraiture of God’s active contestation of evil. The metaphysical thought of Plotinus, Augustine and Leibniz is to be redirected from its past orientation towards a future disposition. The Kantian idea of an authentic theodicy based on the Book of Job will also be introduced. This will allows us to steer firmly between the Scylla of a metaphysical overlooking of individual suffering and the Charybdis of disregarding God when facing evil.

DEMNITATEA UMANĂ ȘI VALORILE RELIGIOASE DIN PERSPECTIVĂ CREȘTINĂ

Author(s): Ion–Lucian Răcilă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

In a time when human dignity is violated in countless ways in countries and societies around the world - often in the name of religion – Christianity, must reaffirm this important value and, more importantly, apply it in daily life. All religions recognize human beings as fundamentally equal. Respect for human dignity is therefore another fundamental principle of all religions. With this equality comes the belief that all people deserve a basic level of respect and dignity, regardless of their background. This principle excludes discrimination against people on the grounds of race, ethnicity, ancestry, socio-economic status, gender or disability; a growing number of people believe that they also exclude discrimination based on sexual orientation. Seen positive, the principle of equal dignity requires respect for all human beings, even those with whom we disagree most profoundly or whose cultures or lifestyles seem to us the strangest. Recognizing the equal value of all is therefore essential to building a global community of integrity and peace in this age of globalization. According to the biblical revelation, God not only created human nature, but endowed it with qualities according to His image and His likeness (cf. Gen 1:26). It is the only reason for asserting that human nature has an inherent dignity.

Hardy on Polanowska-Sygulska on Hardy on Berlin on Pluralism and Religion

Author(s): Henry Hardy / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Henry Hardy responds to various minor points in Beata Polanowska-Sygulska’s review of his book In Search of Isaiah Berlin, and argues that she provides no good reason to resist his claim that Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism is inconsistent with mainstream forms of religious belief.

Light, created and uncreated, wave and particle at the same time

Author(s): Alina Cristea,Ovidiu Felipov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

We confess in the Creed that God is light, and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is light from the light. There is no prayer without even a reference to light. The initial light, after the Christian conception, is a reflection of the uncreated divine energies, a sign of the presence and fullness of the divine creative grace. "The difference between the light of the first day and that of the fourth day," says Saint Basil the Great, is this: the first was the very essence of light, the second was carried by the astral bodies. But the light and something else are the luminators; the Creator it fills them with light and suspends them in the vicinity of the world". As a primordial element in creation, light is the first that has been praised by the praise of the Creator Himself, as it is said in Holy Scripture: "And God saw that light is very beautiful" (cf. Acts I, 4). The word "enlightenment" goes far beyond the simple idea of seeing around and creates, with each example, its own structure. The light that comes from above has a unique quality in nature, as in philosophy, it penetrates even the darkest corners of the spirit, even if it is only a ray. The meaning of "enlightenment" becomes synonymous with revelation, whether we are talking about the world of ideas, the mental, the intellectual or the spiritual. However, light also has scientific definitions and is at the center of the most remarkable explorations of the truths of Creation. The demonstration, in 2015, of Einstein's theory, according to which light behaves as a wave and a particle at the same time, meant an extremely important turning point, on the border between science and religion. Beyond the scientific demonstration and the experiment itself, the quantum understanding of light brings to attention another paradigm of wave-particle duality, that of mystery. This mystery probably made Einstein declare in 1916 that for the rest of my life I would like to think about what light is. As His invisible thoughts are seen from the creatures (Rom, 1, 20), we can believe that this mysterious wave-corpus duality is the natural phenomenon by which we can understand, or rather accept, believe in, the mystery of the unmixed union of his nature. God with the human, in the person of the Savior of Christ.

L’INDIVIDU, UN SUJET DE DROIT OU UN ANIMAL SYMBOLIQUE ? MALAISE DANS LE DROIT

Author(s): Jacques Amar / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2020

The individual, a subject of law or a symbolic animal? Discomfort in the law. How can it be explained that the text concerning the prohibition of religious signs in the public sphere in France can be justified in the name of human rights in France and condemned in the name of human rights at the United Nations? The present article attempts to explain this situation on the basis of the notion of dispute expounded by J. F. Lyotard; it tries to explain the new trends in contemporary law on the basis of the distinction between dispute and litigation.

Svarstyti klausimai apie tiesą klausimas XIV. VI, VII, VIII artikulai

Author(s): Thomas Aquinas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 101/2019

Translated from "Sancti Thomae de Aquino Quaestiones disputatae de veritate, quaestio XIV. Textum adaequatum Leonino 1972 edito ex plagulis de prelo emendatum ac translatum a Roberto Busa SJ in taenias magneticas denuo recognovit Enrique Alarcón atque instruxit"; http:// www.corpusthomisticum.org/qdv14.html; Translated from Latin by Professor dr. Gintautas Vyšniauskas, Klaipeda University.

Дионисије Ареопагит, новоплатоновац или хришћанин?

Author(s): Kristina Todorović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 32/2019

The answer to the question whether Dionysius the Areopagite was a Neoplatonist, a Christian or both determines the interpretation of his writings. In this paper, I will try to demonstrate what Dionysius has to say about the relationship between theology and philosophy. I claim that Dionysius should initially be understood as a Christian; however, he does not exclude the role of philosophy in our attempts to achieve some kind of knowledge of God. According to Dionysius, theology and philosophy are in perfect harmony, because they have the same intention, to tell us something about the primary cause of everything (God). However, the only thing that can be established about this primary cause is that it goes beyond all our possibilities of knowing. Dionysius calls this truth about God aphophantic truth, and we can find the roots of this idea both in philosophy (especially in philosophy of Proclus) and in Christianity.

LEGAL ASPECT OF THE INFLUENCE ON FORMING OPTIMAL PHILOSOPHICAL PARADIGM

Author(s): Yurii Paida / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article deals with the analysis of various aspects of the mutual influence of culture and religion, because reinterpretation of religion values, a meaningful, semantic element of religion is necessary and has evident practical dimension that affects forming of the optimal cultural paradigm.

ŚWIADECTWO JAKO ZNAK OBJAWIENIA I MOTYW WIARYGODNOŚCI CHRZEŚCIJAŃSKIEJ. PERSPEKTYWA FUNDAMENTALNOTEOLOGICZNA

Author(s): Tadeusz Siewko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

Testimony is a key concept of fundamental theology, because this science is based not on experience but on the testimony of people who have met God. In the New Testament, the first witness who gives testimony of God as his father is Jesus Christ, who performs self-revelation to the world. According to John the Apostle, the Apostles are the main witnesses of the Son of God, because they personally met the Lord and received His teaching. Saint Paul defines a witness as a person who met the Savior through faith and accepted His teaching. The task of Christ’s disciples is to pass on this meeting. The ancient philosophy has given the basis for understanding testimony as martyrdom, in which the philosopher witnessed the truth about the world of ideas that he discovered. The philosopher not only delivered his views to others, but also lived according to this exemplar. Socrates is an example of a teacher who was faithful to his views up to the sacrifice of his own life. Philosophy becomes for the ancients the skill of proper life, that is why the martyr is the one who lives in the right way until death. Christian martyrs thus testify that they are convinced of their resurrection. Becoming a martyr does not depend on the type of death suffered, but mostly on the idea of imitating Christ in carrying the cross.

Wątpliwości Darwina

Author(s): Stephen Greenblatt / Language(s): Polish Issue: 785/2020

NIETZSCHEOV RELIGIOZNI ŽIVOT KAO TJELOVANJE BESKONAČNOSTI

Author(s): Boško Pešić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2020

Nietzsche’s stance that it is to be written only of that which has been successfully handled may prove thematically ambiguous in a number of ways. Given that relevant interpreters of Nietzsche may consider this title as nothing but a forgery, a genuine approach to the thematic development of such a title has to establish a possible subtitle: what could religious life without religion even mean? Indeed, does this title contain anything but an unsuccessful provocation?! Is it too little to say that religious life as discussed here, understood through the key of Nietzsche’s philosophy, has nothing to do with the life of religiosity?! Nietzsche presents this “cheapest and most innocent mode of life” as bodying forth of the great mind in the pervasive intoxication. His language becomes a dance with things, while wisdom in such a dance appears as belonging to that which is infinite. This examination will, in comparison with the contemporary, attempt to shed light on such a thought landscape.

Tomasz Polak w rozmowie z Sebastianem Dudą

Author(s): Sebastian Duda,Tomasz Polak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 682/2020

Conversation between Tomasz Polak and Sebastian Dudą

TOWARDS AN INTEGRAL STUDY OF RELIGIOSITY ROOTED IN MIRCEA ELIADE'S NEW HUMANISM

Author(s): Alina Preda / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Towards an Integral Study of Religiosity Rooted in Mircea Eliade's New Humanism. The present article advocates for the development and the implementation of a philosophy of religiosity informed by Mircea Eliade’s new humanism, Eugeniu Sperantia’s axiotropism, D. D. Roşca’s outlook on human existence and Aurel Codoban’s hermeneutic philosophy of religions. If such an integral study of religiosity were to be accommodated by a new educational paradigm, the resulting humanist pro-social education would protect society from underlying drivers of polarisation such as religious dogmatism and fundamentalism.

Хуманизам у хришћанској философији Николаја Берђајева

Author(s): Nenad D. Plavšić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2020

This work presents the thoughts of a well known contemporary Christian thinker, Nikolai Berdyaev, on humanism. Humanism, in its essence, represents the attitude that the good of mankind is of utmost importance. Although it stemmed from Christianity, humanism in modern age most often means that striving towards this good has no connection with the God. The drama of atheistic humanism, which ends with its inevitable transition into anti-humanism, is clearly presented by Berdyaev based on the historical development of humanism, some prominent thinkers’ thoughts about a man, of which the most significant are Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Marx, as well as the insight into sociopolitical striving in the newer history of mankind.

Prikaz: О. Василиос Термос, У потрази за личношћу. „Истинито“ и „лажно сопство“ према Доналду Виникоту и Св. Григорију Палами

Author(s): Dragana Rakic / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2020