Accuracy of science, stringency of philosophy and revelation of religion

1. Entity type Lemma
2. Original titleТочность науки, строгость философии и откровенность религии
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Saprykin, Dmitry
5. lemma category Various approaches to the problem of correlation between science and theology
6. Publication date 2009
7. lemma work Katasonov, Vladimir [Author]. Accuracy of science, stringency of philosophy and revelation of religion
8. lemma manifestations Христианство. Культура. Наука. : Christianity. Culture. Science.
9. Keywords science - Philosophy - Religion
10. Citations
    1. http://katasonov-vn.narod.ru/sphr1.html
11. Lemma body

    1. The article is devoted to analysis of the concepts of science, philosophy and religion and the connection between them.

       While constructing certain scientific theories (the case of actual infinity cognoscibility) the requirement of their logical completeness leads a researcher-philosopher to the idea of Universal Reason, the author notes. An attempt to understand our actions in the field of law, morality or ethics - in the field of practical reason - also leads us to the idea of the Divine, because "there would be no sense to uphold the just and the good, the high and the holy, if they had no ontological significance." Philosophy "cannot prove this positively and irrefutably, but through its analysis, through its thorough 'palpating' of logical connections it clearly shows the reality of the Good."

       Science and philosophy, as the author argues, are the attempts to comprehend the reality by human mind. Activity here is on the human side. In religion, activity is on the side of the Divine: something higher than man is revealed to a man. The role of man is reduced here to a humble invocation: Lord, have mercy! "Have mercy" - because the claim for communication with God from the part of a sinful human being is always some boldness ... Humility is the necessary moment of communion with God, communication with the Shrine.

       Another distinctive difference between religion and science and philosophy is that the latter are always some kind of "-logy" - attempts by the human mind to find a connection and sense in reality, some logic-mathematical scheme of reality. Religion, the author postulates, in its core, is always the very reality, the true life, identical with meaning, not reducible to any "-logy". Not only reality-in-itself, but also sense-giving, enlightening and sanctifying everything in the world - the Shrine. This reality, the life is comprehended only by faith as the supreme synthesis of human abilities and is revealed more and more in theosis - the gracious transfiguration of human nature by divine energies.