Milczenie rozumu w religii i duchowości: filozoficzna analiza trudnej odmiany racjonalności

• Authors: Śnieżyński Krzysztof

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THE KEEPING SILENT OF REASON IN RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF RATIONALITY OF THE HARD VARIETY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The basic question of this article is the following: do religious people and, more broadly, those engaged in spiritual life, when entering into a state of quietude through keeping silent, proceed in a manner that is rational? It seeks answers to this question from within the philosophy of religion, which breaks with the methodological postulate that says that one should, for the sake of making rational philosophical sense of religious phenomena, maintain a distance from the subject of investigation. An examination is proposed of the rationality of religion itself, and of what it means to maintain silence for religious purposes – the rationality of “being someone maintaining silence in a state of quietude”. This prompts us to ask the following question: does reason’s capacity for passively remaining silent and listening create an opportunity to save the spiritual identity of human beings, lost amidst a civilization built on prosperity and scientific knowledge, on a continuous hum of information and the dictatorship of noise?

Keywords

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GOD AND RELIGION; MAINTAINING SILENCE AND CONCENTRATION; UNDERSTANDING; EASY AND HARD RATIONALITY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 49-73

Contributors

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Śnieżyński Krzysztof

• Akademia Ignatianum, Wydział Filozoficzny, ul.Kopernika 26, 31-501 Kraków, Poland