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Wittgenstein i zagadka Anzelma

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Gomułka J.

Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne

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2013

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issue nr 23

71 - 98

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The paper is devoted to the problem of the two paradoxes: the paradox of absolute value in Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics and the paradox of Anselm’s Name of God from the Proslogion. I try to present semantic determinants of the paradoxes as well as similarities of their structures. However, the main part of the article focuses on the solution of Anselm’s paradox given by Cora Diamond, the prominent Wittgensteinian scholar in her paper Riddles and Anselm’s Riddle. Diamond develops extensive comparison of the concept of that than which nothing greater can be conceived and a series of peculiar riddles – she calls the Anselm’s concept the great riddle, since, as in other riddles presented, we cannot deal with it in a usual way. The author shows that what enables us to resolve, say, the riddle of Sphinx, is our obtaining a new way of understanding the words which compose the riddle itself, for the old way will not lead us to the proper answer. However, when it comes to the great riddle we know that we cannot obtain any way of understanding which will enable us to conceive it. This does not mean that the riddle cannot make any sense for us. We can believe that there is a solution (in fact, we have the solution – it has been given to us in the Revelation – but we cannot understand it) so we can treat the great riddle as an euqation which we lack proof but we know there is one. As Diamond calls it, we have the promissory meaning of the riddle. In my opinion the idea of the promissory meaning is an interesting solution of Anselm’s paradox, but I notice that the idea itself is conditioned by religious faith or by something I call the empathic atheism (in short: an attitude which lets atheists take the believers’ point of view).

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Gilson’s Notion of Theologism in The Unity of Philosophical Experience and Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages

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Capehart J. D.

Studia Gilsoniana

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2019

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vol. 8

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issue 1

11-44

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The author examines Gilson’s development of the term “theologism” from his 1937 The Unity of Philosophical Experience and his 1938 Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages. This term is important for understanding Gilson’s developing doctrine on Christian philosophy. The treatment of it helps to show how Gilson’s understanding of Christian philosophy does not entail the formal conflation of philosophy with Christianity—as some have accused. In fact, the knowledge of what theologism is—referring primarily to the misuse of philosophy by the theologian—helps to set the stage for seeking an understanding of the proper relationship of Christianity to philosophy, a unity which maintains formal distinction. This knowledge also provides a hermeneutical tool for the proper interpretation of Gilson’s later writings on Christian philosophy.

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From Satan’s Wager to Eve’s Gambit to Our Leap: An Anselmian Reply to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness

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Dumsday T.

Roczniki Filozoficzne

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2021

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vol. 69

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issue 3

67-85

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Od zakładu szatana, przez podstęp Ewy, do naszego skoku: anzelmiańska odpowiedź na problem Bożego ukrycia Chociaż u św. Anzelma nie znajdziemy wyraźnej dyskusji na temat problemu Bożego ukrycia (PBU), tak jak jest on dziś powszechnie rozumiany – mianowicie jako argument za ateizmem – to jest on doskonale świadomy trudności egzystencjalnych, jakie stwarza nasz pozorny brak dostępu do Boga. Co więcej, dostarcza on składników dla interesującego i dotychczas zaniedbanego podejścia do PBU, zakorzenionego w wielu chrześcijańskich narracjach o odstępstwach od stanu łaski, zarówno anielskich, jak i ludzkich. Celem tego artykułu jest wyraźne nakreślenie podejścia Anzelma i dostarczenie przynajmniej szczątkowego jego rozwiązania PBU.

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While St. Anselm does not supply us with an explicit discussion of the problem of divine hiddenness (PDH) as it is typically conceived today-namely, as an argument for atheism-he is keenly aware of the existential difficulty posed by our seeming lack of access to God. Moreover, he provides the ingredients for an interesting and heretofore neglected approach to the PDH, one rooted in multiple Christian narratives about lapses from knowledge-infused states of grace, both angelic and human. The goal of this paper is to draw out that Anselmian approach explicitly, and to provide at least a rudimentary assessment of it.

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Wittgenstein i zagadka Anzelma

Gilson’s Notion of Theologism in The Unity of Philosophical Experience and Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages

From Satan’s Wager to Eve’s Gambit to Our Leap: An Anselmian Reply to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness