Evil as an absence of human good. The existential concept of Martin Buber

Authors

  • Karol Jasiński Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.1044

Keywords:

evil, biblical and Persian mythology, chaos, direction

Abstract

The paper presents the philosophical idea of moral evil in the thought of Martin Buber (†1965) as the lack of direction in the life of a man. The source of inspiration were for the concept of Buber biblical and Persian myths. The paper has four parts: 1) idea of myth (testimony of the meeting with the Absolute and instrument in searching for the existential truth); 2) message of the biblical myths (contradiction in the human nature and appeal to the direction of the life); 3) Persian myths (danger of existential lie and lack of decision); 4) philosophical idea of evil (existance in the chaos of possibilities and lack of the direction in the life to God).

Author Biography

  • Karol Jasiński, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

    Karol Jasiński – prezbiter archidiecezji warmińskiej; doktor nauk humanistycznych w zakresie filozofii; pracownik Wydziału Teologii Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie; główne obszary zainteresowań: filozofia religii i filozofia społeczna.

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2015-09-09

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