The God Question
(2013) In Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts 7(2, Fall 2012). p.49-51- Abstract
- The essay focuses on the apophatic tradition, Western metaphysics, and the unknown God. It presents Jaspers' thoughts on transcendence as an eye-opener. To take the issue of the unknown God, two philosophers are highlighted, David Hume and Simone Weil. For Hume the concept of the unknown God presents the problem of how might anything that is unknown have any moral influence on human beings? Simone Weil tries to combine the personal and the impersonal aspect of God, that is God is both known and unknown.
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- author
- Stenqvist, Catharina LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- life-view, Simone Weil, via negativa, via positiva, Karl Jaspers, David Hume, Apophatic
- categories
- Higher Education
- in
- Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 2, Fall 2012
- pages
- 49 - 51
- publisher
- Karl Jaspers Society of North America
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84880360424
- ISSN
- 1932-1066
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 7dce3215-09ac-4707-9de9-89f9f92d3ed6 (old id 3802374)
- alternative location
- http://www.bu.edu/paideia/existenz/volumes/Vol.7-2Stenqvist.pdf
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 13:56:10
- date last changed
- 2022-01-27 22:00:22
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