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'GOD' AS A CIPHER OF TRANSCENDENCE. JASPERS' INTERPRETATION OF THE 'GROUND CIPHERS OF GODHEAD'
Danijel Tolvajčić
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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The main idea of this paper is to reconstruct and evaluate concept of «God» as «cipher of Transcendence» in Karl Jaspers' philosophical faith («der philosophische Glaube»). God-question has very important role in Jaspers' late thought. «Existenzphilosophie» is - in his own words - metaphysics. It is, in fact, sort of a philosophical search for Absolute.
Jaspers' name for Absolute is «Transcendence» (die Transzendenz.) Transcendence is, as «Encompassing of all that Encompasses», non-objective, transcendent, absolutely hidden source and ground of existential self-realization of man. There can be no knowledge of Transcendence. It is sort of deus absconditus of Jaspers' philosophy. Although it has many names (Being, Reality, Deity, God), no category can grasp it. Transcendence, is therefore, thinkable only as the «Unthinkable». Instead of knowledge, we have «cipher reading». Unthinkable, hidden Transcendence speaks only through ciphers. Main cipher of Transcendence is «God». Cipher «God» has many forms; the basic «ciphers of the Deity» in the West are «the one God», «the personal God» and «the incarnated God». These three «fundamental ciphers of the Deity» are - in Jaspers' own words – «inaudible without thinking». We can only bring them to mind by means of philosophical speculation. Speculation doesn't bring Transcendence near, but «uncovers the wealth of ciphers » and their «powerfull existentiall effect». In cipher «God», Transcendence, although hidden, becomes present to Existenz, but Existenz does not have any real «knowledge » about what God is. When we want to «know» what God is, we fail. So, «failure» becomes the ultimate cipher. Instead of «knowledge», we have «philosophical faith». Philosophising man as possible Existenz, therefore, becomes philosophical believer in all-encompassing Transcendence wich lies «beyond all ciphers».
Ključne riječi
Existenz; transcendence; ciphers; one God; personal God; incarnated God; philosophical faith
Hrčak ID:
123684
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Datum izdavanja:
18.1.2010.
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