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The Power and Limits of Reason: Al-Rāzī on the Possibility of General and Particular Metaphysical Knowledge [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021 This article examines al-Rāzī’s views on the possibility of metaphysical knowledge. Firstly, after outlining his classification of the metaphysical knowable into essence and existence as well as undetailed (ijmālī) and detailed (taf~īlī), the article ...
Eşref Altaş
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Wittgenstein and Maimonides on God and the Limits of Language [PDF]
, 2011 The purpose of this paper is to bring together two thinkers that are concerned with the limits of what can be said, Wittgenstein and Maimonides, and to explore the sense of the good life and of the mystical to which their therapeutic linguistic work ...
Verbin, N.
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Vox Patrum, 2018 In early Christian thinking negative theology was often applied for polemical purposes, as a means of asserting the Christian distinction between God and everything else.
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
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Normative Political Theology as Intensified Critique [PDF]
, 2018 Some theorists are suspicious of normative political theology because they believe it undermines critical rationality. In my view, these theorists neglect theological traditions that resist dogmatism through intensified critique.
Newheiser, David
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Adorno on the ethical and the ineffable [PDF]
, 2002 The thesis is that Adorno has a normative ethics, albeit a minimal and negative ethics of resistance. However Adorno’s ethical theory faces two problems: the problem of the availability of the good and the problem of whether a normative ethics is ...
Finlayson, James Gordon
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The logical challenge of negative theology
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 In this paper I present four interpretations of so-called negative theology and provide a number of attempts to model this theory within a formal system. Unfortunately, all of them fail in some manner.
Urbańczyk Piotr
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Elements of Apophatic Theology in the Writings of Elizabeth of the Trinity
Verbum Vitae, 2023 The article is a theological and spiritual reflection on the spiritual doctrine of the French mystic St. Elizabeth of the Trinity OCD (Élisabeth Catez), who lived from 1880 to 1906. The present study seeks to explain the reason why apart from cataphatic
Jan Miczyński
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The paradox of ineffability [PDF]
, 2017 Saying that x is ineffable seems to be paradoxical – either I cannot say anything about x, not even that it is ineffable – or I can say that it is ineffable, but then I can say something and it is not ineffable.
Sebastian, Gäb
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The Position of Dialectic and Analogy in the Theology of Plotinus [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2022 Dialectics in philosophy was first used by the philosophers of ancient Greece and was changed by philosophers throughout the history of philosophy, and there is a strong use of analogy in the works of Plato.
Hasan Abasi Hosain Abadi
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Postmodernism and Negative Theology [PDF]
Bijdragen, 1997 SummaryTo clarify our present-day postmodern context and to ascertain the critical consciousness of our time, we present a number of main lines of thought in the work of Wolfgang Welsch, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Richard Rorty. Each one of them has emphasized an aspect that perhaps is characteristic for the postmodern time.
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