Poznan called nothing else as an active meaningful reflection of reality in human consciousness.This process revealed completely new sides being investigated phenomena and objects of the world, the essence of things and much more.It is also important that the person possesses the ability to know himself.The science of knowledge - epistemology.
In philosophy, there are two main points of view on the whole process of cognition:
- agnosticism;
- Gnosticism.
Typically, proponents of Gnosticism are materialists.They look at the knowledge is very optimistic.Their opinion - the man originally endowed with the possibility of knowledge, which are limitless, the world is knowable, but the true essence of all things, sooner or later will be opened.Agnosticism is a philosophy in its complete opposite.
agnostics are often idealists.They do not believe either that the world is knowable or that the person is able to learn it.In some cases, it may be only a partial knowability of the world.
agnosticism in philosophy
Agnostics emphasize that it is impossible to say exactly whether there are gods.According to them, the probability that God exists absolutely is that there is no God.Similar provisions are added to this trend a fair share of skepticism.
agnosticism in philosophy is remarkable in that its followers are often ranked among the atheists, or at least, to the unbeliever.It's not quite right, because there are many agnostic theists.They identified themselves as agnostics, as well as followers of some particular religion.
Agnostics claim that the human mind simply can not understand the laws of nature, and notice signs of God's existence, because it requires something else, not what a person owns.If God is, he did everything to mere mortal could not have been easy to understand, but even to feel it.
agnosticism in philosophy: sub
There are several subcategories:
- weak agnosticism.Also called soft, empirical, time, open, and so on.The bottom line is that the gods might exist, but it is impossible to know;
- strong agnosticism.Also called closed, absolute, strict or solid.The point is that the existence or non-existence of God can not be proven only for the reason that one can not fully believe in any of these options;
- apathetic agnosticism.Convictions based on the fact that there is not only no evidence of the existence of God, but the evidence that it does not exist;
- ignosticism.His representatives say that before asking questions of God's existence, it is necessary to give an exhaustive definition of the word "God."There is also a model
atheism, agnostic atheism and agnostic theism.
Agnosticism of Kant
This topic was studied very much.Representatives of agnosticism vary, but first and foremost always allocate Johann Kant, who put forward a consistent theory of the philosophical direction.The essence of the following:
- the human ability is very limited by its natural essence (limited cognitive abilities of the human mind);
- knowledge - is not nothing but a perfect independent activity of the mind;
- the world is unknowable in itself.A man can know only the outside of the objects and phenomena, but the inner side will forever remain a mystery to him;
- knowledge is a process in which the matter is studying itself.All this is possible by means of its reflectivity.
Besides Kant, a great treasure in agnosticism have philosophers, Robert J.. Ingersoll, Thomas Henry Huxley and Bertrand Russell.
