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Idea filozofii mądrościowej w lubelskiej szkole filozoficznej

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The concept of wisdom philosophy was developed by the representatives of Lublin Philosophical School (S. Swieżawski, M.A. Krąpiec, S. Kamiński)and inspired by French philosophers (E. Gilson and J. Maritain). In his work Science et sagesse (Science and Wisdom) Maritain distinguishes three types of wisdom — mystical, theological and metaphysical. It is the concept of metaphysical wisdom that the thinkers from Lublin philosophical school focused on and developed. Wisdom is the existential position when one understands reality, and is assumed via the philosophical contemplation of being. Wisdom philosophy strives to explain the very fact of being and to know the transcendental attributes of being (oneness, truth, goodness and beauty) which amount to being itself (the metaphysical axiom: ens et unum, verum, bonum, pulchrum convertuntur). The problem of being and its transcendental attributes marks the limits of metaphysical wisdom and results in liminal ąuestions on the nature of reality as such (eg. why is there something rather than nothing?). According to A. Krąpiec, when one deals with those kinds of ąuestions, their end can be a sense of either absurdity or mystery. Wisdom philosophy rejects absurdity and opens up to mystery. Among others, the idea of wisdom philosophy was a point of interest to John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et ratio (No. 83).