Poznanie niewyraźne Boga ("cognitio confusa") – Tomasz z Akwinu i Kartezjusz

• Authors: Zembrzuski Michał

Title variants

EN

Confused cognition of God ("cognitio confusa") – St. Thomas Aquinas and Descartes

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A man has a natural need for cognition of causes, particularly when he perceives reality, which is an effect of someone’s action. Aristotle, when describing a philosopher (the wise man), emphasizes that he’s a person, who has knowledge about all things (as far as possible) and cognitions of things, which are difficult to cognire and also knows causes, which are cognizable at most. But whether it’s possible recognition of causes and the paradigm of realistic philosophy nowadays, when we inherit principles of Cartesian Philosophy in our mindset and culture? When is everything unclear, inaccurate or mysterious regard as false? And when only mathematical clearness preserves state of knowledge and certainty? Therefore the problem of unclear cognition is so significant. This issue was prepared by St. Thomas Aquinas, who on that basis considered question of cognition of God. Descartes, however, completely negated this kind of cognition and built ‘boundary sign’ for the truth of the cognition. It seems that reinstatement of the right place of confused cognition and its protection in philosophy is possible inasmuch as it is still possible cognition of reality, i.e. cognition of thing-in-itself. A wonderment (admiration), which was the beginning of philosophy (because it express confused cognition of world) in post-Cartesian paradigm of reflection is unconvincing – the essence of the philosophy is purely and simply clear thinking. But emphasize the role of confused cognition is not a recognition it as sufficient and only way to perfect knowledge. Emphasizing confused knowledge is an objection to the thesis of the possession of only excellent knowledge and in the act, and objection to the claims that deny the potentiality and potency of knowing reality. If so, there would be no compromise statement that for the beliver the existence of God is obvious and for non-beliver non-existence of God is equally obvious.

Keywords

PL

Tomasz z Akwinu; Kartezjusz; poznanie niewyraźne; naturalne poznanie Boga; poznanie Boga przez łaskę; poznanie Boga w chwale

EN

Thomas Aquinas; Descartes; unclear cognition; natural knowledge of God; knowledge of God by grace; knowledge of God in glory

• Publisher: Naukowe Towarzystwo Tomistyczne
• Journal: Rocznik Tomistyczny
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 137-153

Contributors

author

Zembrzuski Michał

• Wydział Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej, Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

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ISSN

2300-1976