The Discovery of the Existence of the Absolute in Existential Metaphysics

• Authors: Andrzej Maryniarczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article shows the way in which the discovery of the existence of the Absolute is made in existential metaphysics. This existential metaphysics provides us with knowledge about reality. It shows the content of the experience of being, the content given to us in the transcendentals. It also unveils the foundation of the rational order, which is given to us in the discovery of the first principles of the existence of being and of cognition. Metaphysics provides us also with knowledge concerning the structure of being. It shows us being as composite and plural; being which is “insufficient” in its structure and calls for an explanation. That being—that is problematized in existence, given to us in experience, and incompletely intelligible in itself—lifts us toward its ultimate “complement” and understanding, to the Absolute.

Keywords

EN

Absolute; existence; reality; being; metaphysics; cognition; why; curiosity; gods; mental state; intellect; reason

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 649-672

Dates

published

2016-12-30

Contributors

author

Andrzej Maryniarczyk

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066