Title: Human Freedom and Experiencing God in the Philosophy of Raymond Ruyer
Abstract: This thesis asserts that through human liberty we experience God as much as God experiences Man. In so doing, we attempt to expose and examine Ruyer’s answer to a classical question on rational theology: How can we reconcile human freedom with the existence of God? The answer shows that one cannot exist without the other. God touches our existence without dispossessing it of what it owns; otherwise, only human activity will be apparent. The first part examines the metaphysical status as fiction and the conscience as fascination. In a second part human liberty will be proved by an argument so-called “axiological cogito,” and that proof will be defended against several objections. The thesis itself is developed by Ruyerian answers to the theological question of theodicee in the third part which is linked to the first two parts.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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