Sárospataki Füzetek 2. (1998)

1998 / 1. szám - Dr. Frank Sawyer: Is there a place for God int he inn of Philosophy?

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not an outspoken atheist. He wanted to maintain the depth of the divine, even if in an impersonal way. But there is so much ambiguity in this that we can understand if people would say: make up your mind! Is there a God (creator and redeemer), or not? After Fichte, philosophy continued to keep moving closer to the problem pointed out in Imre Madách’s THE TRAGEDY OF MAN. There Eve asks why God should punish us if we disobey his law, for either we are already determined and have no free will, or if sin is part of God’s plan, then we are also not guilty. Lucifer then replies to Eve:

I see we have our first philosopher.

You are the first of many, my fair sister,

Who’ll argue the same point a million ways.

A few of them will end their days in bedlam.

Others stop short, but none will find a refuge.

Do put aside this futile speculation,

There are so many fine shades of opinion

On every issue that if you try them all

You will end up knowing less than when you started

Without a hope of reaching a conclusion.

Contemplation means the death of action.

And Eve replies:

In that case I will pluck the fruit. 1

1 Madách, Imre: Tragedy of Man, (1859-60).

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