Balazs Mezei

• Pázmány Péter Catholic University

In this article, I delineate a notion of phenomenology, which differs in many ways from earlier approaches. I term this understanding apocalyptic in the sense that this phenomenology discloses not only the essences of particular things, logical entities, ideas, and transcendental processes, but beyond them, it reveals reality in its essential openn...

In this article I offer a programmatic interpretation of the fundamental problem of phenomenology in terms of a philosophy of revelation. As the subtitle expresses, this text is a research summary which shows the framework and the main conceptual structures of “phenomenology as philosophy of revelation”. I propose the outline of a renewal of one of...

This article seeks to trace a line between the prophetic vision of Fides et ratio and the contemporary requirements of renewing Christian philosophy. I would like to raise here five issues. First I would like to critically evaluate the encyclical according to the criteria set by the very document. Secondly, I explore the notion of rebirth of philos...

Balázs M. Mezei’s essay describes the outlines of the so-called non-standard radical philosophical theology, a newly developed philosophical approach to the problem of divine revelation. As Professor Mezei points out, the notion of revelation is merely presupposed but not properly conceived in theology, because theology considers revelation as its...

This book examines key issues in Christianity from various philosophical points of view. It brings together European authors with American theologians and philosophers on an interconfessional basis. Coverage combines analytical and continental approaches in a unique way. This comprehensive, innovative analysis will help readers gain a deep understa...

In this essay, I argue that religion is centrally important in the future of liberal democracy in the Western sense of the word. Without the values of religion, we may have to face the emergence of authoritarian and totalitarian forms of political existence. My starting point is the experience of the so-called post-Communist countries. The essence...

Happiness, life and liberty are central terms in the history of philosophy. At the same time, they belong to the core of Christianity. We find these key terms already in the New Testament and we also find that reflections on these terms have defined their meanings in new ways throughout the centuries. I show the way how the original meanings have g...

Abstrakt The aim of the present paper is to show that Catholicism is not a closed segment of contemporary philosophy but rather a rich source of traditions and developments which are alive even today and can help to understand our philosophical situation and contribute to a renaissance of influential philosophy in our culture. In more detail, I sh...

“The mystical” as an expression, in the sense I use it here, stems from Angela Ales Bello who proposed it as a translation of the German term “Mystik.” The mystical is not to be confused with mysticism, because the meaning of the latter is more ambiguous than that of the former. The mystical is a sui generis phenomenon which opens a genuine connect...

I offer an overview of the relevance of the notion of divine revelation to the methodology of the sciences. The notion of revelation is to be considered in the framework of a well-formed philo­sophical theory. In such a theory, the theological notion of revelation is important as well, because as a historically evolving notion it has contributed, i...

Abstrakt In this paper I investigate the tradition of “philosophy” and “philosopher” with respect to their importance in Christianity. I argue that the meaning of the traditional notion of philosophy as an abstract science has importantly changed. The reason for this is that the “cosmo-theological” character of traditional philosophy proved to be...

In this paper I highlight two opposing models of the notion of divine revelation: the propositional and the radical. The propositional understanding of revelation was central to theology and philosophy until the 19th century. Since then, a number of other models of revelation have emerged. I define as radical the understanding of revelation which e...

Art and religion in phenomenology may be compared to two intersecting circles. The exact range of the intersection varies in the works of different authors. Philosophers like martin heidegger and/or maurice merleau-ponty offer phenomenologies in which the range of intersection is relatively wide; for others, like max scheler and/or edmund husserl,...

Catholic philosophy" has a threefold meaning. First, it refers descriptively to the understanding of philosophy throughout the history of Catholic Christianity. After the decline of Hellenism, philosophy in the Greek sense did not survive anywhere else than in Catholi- cism; the works of the Latin Fathers, the theologians of the Middle Ages, and th...

Kutatásunk a filozófia 20. század eleji nyelvi fordulatáról szóló közismert tézist akképp módosította, hogy a 17., s még inkább a 18. századról szólva nem kevésbé értelmes a filozófia "nyelvi fordulatáról" szólnunk, mint ahogyan ezt szokásosan a 20. századról beszélve tesszük. Ezt a tézist kiegészítettük azzal, hogy nem indokolt a nyelvfilozófiát a...

A kutatás során a jelentés és a megértéshez kapcsolódó problémák egy részét jártuk körül az analitikus, a fenomenológiai és a hermeneutikai tradíció keretén belül. A kutatás központjában az alábbi kérdések álltak: (1) A nyelv szerepe. Mi a viszony a nyelvi és nem-nyelvi megértés között? (2) Az interszubjektivitás. Mi biztosítja az egyének és kultúr...