„A Bóg pozwolił, by coś takiego się wydarzyło”. Hansa Jonasa teodycea po Holokauście

• Authors: Kornacka Katarzyna

Title variants

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“AND GOD LET IT HAPPEN”. HANS JONAS` THEODICY AFTER THE HOLOCAUST

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Hans Jonas, a German-born philosopher of Jewish origin, attempts to explain the silence of God during the Holocaust. In “The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice”, he constructs a new idea of God to explain His weakness and inertia during the Shoah. God “after Auschwitz” can no longer be seen as the Lord of History, though He is still regarded as good and understandable. He is constantly ‘becoming’, always cares for the world, and suffers with what has been created. He is not able to overcome Evil, for it is Man who is responsible for creation and is the true author of suffering. The article shows the genesis of Jonas’s theosophical views, which are neither new nor original. Medieval Kabbalists presented the idea of Man, the redeemer of a God who is in permanent dialectical tension. The destiny of the cosmos is dependent on morally good or bad human activity. Moreover, Jonas was also influenced by the views of E. Berkovits. In “God, Man and History” Berkovits develops the concept of a free and imperfect man who was given responsibility for the world by God.

Keywords

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HANS JONAS; JEWISH PHILOSOPHY; PHILOSOPHY OF EVIL; PHILOSOPHY OF GOD; JEWISH MYSTICISM

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 157-172

Contributors

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Kornacka Katarzyna