Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2007.
Original scientific paper
Searching for an Insight into the Soul. A Contribution to the Philosophical Thought of Pavao Vuk-Pavlović
Ivana Zagorac
Abstract
Searching for the soul and spirituality has been motivating philosophers to create conceptions of diverse interpretations. Can we gain insight into the soul, can we define spirituality, what is spirituality as a matter of fact and are there such categories that could be the subject of insight – are all questions that we come across in the philosophical thoughts of Pavao Vuk-Pavlović.
Experience, as the locus of interlacement between gnoseological, ontological and ethical problems, is where he starts his philosophy. He builds his approach to the phenomenon of experience upon a critical transcendence over the Neo-Kantian and positivistic currents. It is from the complexity of his understanding of experience that we can read out the specific quality of the unity between one’s consciousness – as the subjective component – and the object of one’s experience – as the objective component of experience – their complex interrelations that also give rise to his original philosophical theory of the pluralism of worlds and, finally, investigate the capabilities of philosophy as such.
Keywords
Pavao Vuk-Pavlović; experience; spirituality; insight; pluralism of worlds; capabilities of philosophy
Hrčak ID:
15735
URI
Publication date:
2.4.2007.
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