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This article discusses the critical position of Immanuel Kant towards the tradition of so called ontological proof of God’s existence. Kant treats the proof sceptically – he is convinced that any proof of God’s existence is impossible. However, Kant accepts the concept of God as the idea of pure reason, i.e. a sum of total positive “properties” and the ideal of pure reason. This ideal – an unconditional...
The paper presents the idea of transcendence of God as depth of being in the philosophy of Józef Życiński (1948–2011). This idea has two main interpretations: moral (searching for the meaning of life by man and discovering it in the world of values) and ontological (the presence of some formal structures in the being of the world as the expression of the divine Logos). The paper consists of three...
This paper constitutes an endeavor to present the thought of dr Henry More, a seventeenth century English philosopher and theologian, who is regarded as one of the so-called Cambridge Platonists. Historians usually consider thinkers such as Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza as their adversaries, but it is only partially true in relation to Henry More because in his early years he was a follower of Descartes...
The paper is an attempt to answer a question about the shape of relations between the divine and the human in the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa, and to reconstruct the way that leads him to their explication. A well-known and rather predictable theme concerning God’s greatness, man’s misery and a God-man exaltation putting this misery to an end achieves a specific form in Cusanus texts. It is characterized...
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