Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.71.1.1
The Absolute Always Remains an Absolute Mystery
Anto Pavlović
orcid.org/0000-0001-9956-8496
; The Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Hrvoje Vargić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9750-8956
; The Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This article explores the philosophical thought of Rudolf Brajičić with regard to the foundedness and objectivity of synthetic a priori judgements, such that the authors examine the possibility of constituting extended metaphysics, i.e., a metaphysics which expands knowledge and again opens the path to rational theology.
The second section examines traditional proofs of God’s existence in view of extended metaphysics, while indicating also some new modes of providing proofs. The preceding provides a solid groundwork for the article’s basic premise wherewith the authors endeavor to
demonstrate that, even after having proven the existence of the Absolute, we still do not have positive deep insight into His essence, into His inner life, and therefore, the Absolute must be understood as an absolute natural mystery, and speech about the Absolute as speech about a mystery.
Keywords
Brajičić; extended metaphysics; proving God’s existence; Absolute; absolute mystery
Hrčak ID:
160026
URI
Publication date:
30.5.2016.
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