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https://doi.org/10.31192/np.21.1.2
Philosophical Aspects of the Modern Relationship between Man and God
Ivana Greguric
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet hrvatskih studija, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The aim of the paper is to rethink the modern relationship of man towards God, nature and science. The creation of a modern image of the world begins with the self-positioning of man as a self-aware subject who becomes a representative of all beings in the sense of their objectivity – man as the measure of all things. Man achieves this by creating new values, which do not stand in opposition to old values, but he bases new values on a new battle, whether it is about »knowledge is power« (Bacon); to the action of a self-aware subject – »I think therefore I am« (Descartes); »the will to power in the eternal return of the same« (Nietzsche); the absolute spirit of »world history« (Hegel); freed work as »scientific work« (Marx) and finally the scientific-technical mind. In this self-positioning of the modern subject, he deprives nature of all dignity and teleology, making it exclusively an object of exploitation, and by positioning earthly life as a means to achieve the highest values, the »will to power« denies the existence of the biblical God and wants to become »God« on earth with the help of science that reaches the first causes of natural phenomena and the possibility of creating artificial beings without God’s wisdom. Today’s scientific-cybernetic era shows that modern subjectivism ends in the »will to power« of the scientific-technical mind, which objectifies the nature of society and man, making them the means of his self-fulfilling self-development.
Ključne riječi
God; man; nature; science; self-aware subject; will to power
Hrčak ID:
295433
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Datum izdavanja:
13.3.2023.
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