Aleksander Bobko “The religious perspective in Tischners philosophy”

Article published in: Thinking in Value (No 2) Agathology, pp. 203–228
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Aleksander Bobko “The religious perspective in Tischners philosophy”

Article published in: Thinking in Value (No 2) Agathology, pp. 203–228



The analyses conducted here on the structure of the thinking subject, whose final accomplishment is supposed to be the realization of goodness, have led us to the thesis that the experience of evil makes it necessary for thinking to open up to a new dimension. Further, we have concluded – noting an interesting parallel on this issue between Kant’s and Tischner’s philosophy – that this new type of thinking should, in the broadest possible sense, be religious in character. Kant, after discovering that “a man of good will can be an instrument of evil,” postulates that man enter the sphere of religious community life; Tischner, faced with the “death of man” after Auschwitz and Kolyma, finds that man is a being in need of grace. We have already presented the most important points of Kant’s philosophy of religion in the previous chapter; now we would like to elaborate on Tischner’s religious thinking, also rooted in the experience of evil. But first, one important remark must be made.

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prof. Aleksander Bobko

Profesor filozofii, wykładowca Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego i UPJP II w Krakowie. W latach 1985-1997 asystent księdza profesora Tischnera. Obecnie Rektor UR. Autor książek: "Kant i Schopenhauer" (1996), "Schopenhauers Philosophie des Leidens" (2001), "Wartość i nicość" (2005), "Myślenie wobec zła. Religijny i polityczny wymiar myślenia w filozofii Kanta i Tischnera" (2007). Członek Rady Programowej Instytutu Myśli Józefa Tischnera....


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