Science and the Last Things
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2019.018Keywords
science, the last things, universals, the nature of human mind, free will, the destiny of manAbstract
The author of the article aims at justifying the following theses: (1) never will scientific knowledge be able to solve the mystery of the world, including the mystery of such dimensions of exemplification of universals as time and space; (2) cosmic and biological evolution do not generate universals but follow in accordance with them; (3) the rationality we observe in the world can only be explained if we assume the existence of universals independent from human minds; (3) human immaterial soul is a power of configuring the physical and the organic activities of human body; (4) the existence of human free will points at the fact that human persons belong both, to the material world and to the ‘spiritual realm’ which is now inaccessible for us; (5) the aim of the creation of the world and creation of various kinds of persons (human and non-human) was to enable the emergence of intersubjectivity; (6) semantic communication between human persons is the first step towards the participation in the infinite creative power of God.
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