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The Religious Philosophy of Lev Shestov

Liu Ching Chang

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Abstract
This paper deals with the topic on the religious philosophy of Lev
Shhestov. Shestov was a passionate God-seeker , he attacked rationalist
philosophy , and maintained that it was necessary to choose between Athens
philosophyand Jerusalem religious faith. Shestov conceived that only
if God transcends the region of law as conceived in rationalist philosophy,
then the human being could attain salvation from God. What he
meant biblical philosophy was not search for the eternal structure, but a
turning away from knowledge, it was a new dimension of thought. In his
view , religious faith is of supreme value of life, and philosophy should try
to keep alive our sense of the problematic and mysterious . Shestov claimed
that existential philosophy in contrast to theoretical philosophy was a
philosophy of biblical revelation. The Biblical God could help and save
even when it seemed that no help was possible and that salvation was
unattainable. Shestov emphasized that Deus est Deus absconditus.

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philosophy Faith

biblical philosophy

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