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Has Yesterday Already Been?

Author(s): Tadeusz Bartoś
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: future'philosophy;anthropology

Summary/Abstract: A question about tomorrow also asks about the existence / non-existence of the future, the past, and the present. The most momentous opinion is that of Augustine of Hippo. An analysis of various possibilities of speaking about the non-existence / existence of tomorrow poses a question about the likelihood of understanding existence / non-existence. Creationist metaphysics, within whose range Augustine functioned intellectually, is a radical severance with the previous comprehension of the world. It constitutes an earlier unencountered depotentialisation of the world whose entire being depends on the creator, and which does not find within itself a reason for its existence. This is metaphysics of radical ontological heteronomy, depriving the world of a right to itself, dignity, and a non-borrowed reason for its existence.

  • Issue Year: 336/2022
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 151-156
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish
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