Z teorii filozofii Boga

Abstract

In this paper the theory of the philosophy of God is presented and some detailed corrections to the solution published in the article „Próba uwspółcześnienia Tomaszowej argumentacji za istnieniem Boga z przyczynowości sprawczej” [An attempt to modernise St. Thomas’ argumentation for existence of God regarding the idea of efficient causality] are introduced. (See „Studia z filozofii Boga” [Studies in Philosophy of God] vol. II, Warszawa 1973, ed. by Bohdan Bejze, pp. 212–213). In the present approach, regardless the opinions of some contemporary neothomists, the possibility to use the term „philosophy of God” is shown. The forementioned philosophical discipline can be treated as distinct from metaphysics in which one regards an abstractly conceived being as such. In this theory the problems of transcendence can be studied within the philosophical perspectives, whereas in the approach supported by some neothomists the proper object of philosophical studies is only the world of finite beings. Next is mentioned the evident epistemological and methodological pluralism in the philosophy of God. This pluralism is a result of attempts to take into consideration – in starting point of the philosophy of God – not only metaphysical statements concerning the being as such, but also conclusions formulated in science and philosophy of nature. The necessity to introduce similar conclusions in especially obvious in the care of kinetic argumentation for existence of God.