Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 37 No. 4, 2017.
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https://doi.org/10.21464/fi37403
Mystery as a Philosophical Term
Predrag Finci
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Abstract
What I am trying to achieve in this essay is to demonstrate that mystery should be distinguished from mysticism. Mystery as a notion is present in the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel but it can be found in the works of other philosophers (Plotinus, Leibniz, Kant, Bergson, and Wittgenstein). Mystery in philosophy should be understood as that which is given to reflection, as something that still has to be articulated in language and illuminated by philosophical reflection, thus mystery in this sense is what a challenge to philosophising itself is.
Keywords
mystery; mystic; language; problem; knowledge; reflection
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8.2.2018.
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