PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY OR ORTHODOX ANTHROPOLOGY
/FILOZOFIA DEJÍN ALEBO PRAVOSLÁVNA ANTROPOLÓGIA/

Marián FEĎO

doctorand, Department of Church history and byzantology, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Presov, Masarykova 15, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia, marian.fedo@smail.unipo.sk, 00421918261933

Abstract

From the Orthodox theological point of view, the philosophy of human history is an anthropological expression of the essence of man as well as his faill into sin. Resurrection, the seeking of repentance, freedom, and truth. Also, an essential part of people in the context of history is the effort to understand their own existence. Ever since ancient times, ancient thinkers and philosophers have sought to gain a deeper understanding of metaphysical contexts. This effort of people in the mirror of history captures and depicts both the Holy Gospel, as well as philosophical texts from various philosophical streams. The way, truth and life in anthropological-eschatological is Jesus Christ.

Keywords

Anthropology, Orthodoxy, Theology, Philosophy, History, Eschatology, Antiquity, Enlightenment

SUMMARY

Church history is a part of human history and as such it is also a certain sum of human knowledge and mistakes, which we believe, and as it follows from historical consequences, is good to pass on to the next generations. "Man is a social creature who cannot live in isolation without other people." History is, philosophically and theologically, the movement of human ideas through time. "And he who does not know his own history must relive it", said Cicero. Biblically, we know that God the Father was first and foremost the creator of the community. After all, He Himself dwells in the community and is its life-giving source. As for the biblical foundations of the philosophy of history, in the words of St. Solomon, who, as one of the few people of the ancient world who understood the principles of the workings of spirituality, understood that everything without a higher meaning has no deeper meaning and that the truth of life is not hidden in it. As far as the dogmatics of St. Otto from the perspective of the Orthodox Church is concerned, it is true that God is being and not being, since the concept of being evokes boundedness and determination by time. God's essence is incomprehensible to man and unattainable in knowledge. This doctrine was later developed by St. Gregory Palamas. The idea of the unknowability of God's essence was the culminating idea of Palama's dogmatics in the area of the uncreated energies of God.

(Language: slovak)

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