A01=Leszek Kolakowski
Author_Leszek Kolakowski
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- ISBN 9781890318871
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2001
- Publisher: St Augustine's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Leszek Kolakowski discusses, in a highly original way, the arguments for and against the existence of God as they have been conducted through the ages. He examines the critiques of religious belief, from the Epicureans through Nietzsche to contemporary anthropological inquiry, the assumptions that underlie them, and the counter-arguments of such apologists as Descartes, Leibniz, and Pascal.
His exploration of the philosophy of religion covers the historical discussions of the nature and existence of evil, the importance of the concepts of failure and eternity to the religious impulse, the relationship between skepticism and mysticism, and the place of reason, understanding, and in models of religious thought. He examines why people, throughout known history, have cherished the idea of eternity and existence after death, and why this hope has been dependent on the worship of an eternal reality. He confronts the problems of meaning in religious language.
Leszek Kolokowski was born in 1927 in Radom, Poland. He studied at Lodz University and at Warsaw University, where he took his D.Phil. in 1953 and later became Professor of the History of Philosophy. During the same period he also worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and was editor-in-chief of the main philosophical journal in Poland. In March 1968 he was expelled from his university post by the Polish government for political reasons. He was Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University, Montreal, in 1968-69, at the University of Calafornia at Berkeley in 1969-70, and at Yale University in 1975. From 1981 to 1994 he was Professor on the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is a member of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was Senior Research Fellow from 1970 until his retirement in 1995.
