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Document Details : Title: Salvation from Despair Author(s): DE DIJN, Herman Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 87 Issue: 2 Date: 2025 Pages: 371-389 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.87.2.3295277 Abstract : Nothing in nature is in se good or bad; there is no evil and no purpose in nature. The objective view of things (their view sub specie aeternitatis) disregards the categories that inform human longing, particularly the notions of good and bad. Yet, the philosopher who so strongly defends the objective point of view as the one and only way to truth, at the same time takes the problem of salvation, of the ultimate good, as the central problem of his philosophizing. His philosophia naturalis takes the form of an Ethica. This is the overall paradox to be understood. What is even more paradoxical is this: the capacity to take the strictly objective view about Nature and about ourselves turns out to be an essential element in the realization of salvation. |
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