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- Title
Bocheński on divine ineffability.
- Authors
Pouivet, Roger
- Abstract
Section 11 of Józef Bocheński's The Logic of religion (), is devoted to the question of divine ineffability: Is it possible to speak of God? Bocheński shows that even if the assertion of God's ineffability is not contradictory, it can be contested. Bocheński seems to think ineffabilism is based primarily on a confusion, viz., on the claim that faith is dependent on an extraordinary experience, and it is this extraordinary experience which is supposed to be ineffable. The ineffabilist is unable to say who he is addressing in his prayers and praises so long as he maintains that nothing can be said of Him to whom they are addressed. Any meaningful language is minimally referential, whether the ineffabilist likes it or not. This could be the basis for a critique of Jean-Luc Marion's account of apophatism. This criticism shows the fecundity of Bocheński's account of ineffability.
- Subjects
BOCHENSKI, Jozef Maria, 1902-1995; KNOWABLENESS of God; THEORY of knowledge (Religion); PHILOSOPHY of religion; POLISH philosophy; MARION, Jean-Luc, 1946-; NEGATIVE theology
- Publication
Studies in East European Thought, 2013, Vol 65, Issue 1/2, p43
- ISSN
0925-9392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11212-013-9183-9