The Archparadox of Death Martyrdom as a Philosophical Category European Studies in Theology Philosophy and History of Religions by Dariusz Karlowicz 9783653949858 3653949858

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• Author: Dariusz Karlowicz 

The Archparadox of Death
Martyrdom as a Philosophical Category

Table contents:

Part I: Dethroning Philosophy
1. Paul at the Areopagus
Authenticity
An Appraisal of the Speech
Truth Facing the Tribunal of Opinions
Irony
2. Letters
Knowledge-Acknowledgment-Conversion
Degradation and Development
The Possibility of Virtue before Christianity
Credibility and Proof
Several Observations about the Paradoxicality of the Truth
3. Philosophy as a Conversion of Existence and Knowledge
Man against the Backdrop of the Whole
Man as the Whole (Integral Conversion)
Change and Permanence
Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise
Christianity as Philosophy
Part II: Witness as Proof
1. The Concept of Martyrdom
Evolution of a Concept
Jewish Sources
The Philosophical Tradition
2. Knowledge and Witness
The Criterion of Laches
Skepticism and Praxis
The Sage as the Condition for the Meaning and Criterion of Truth
3. The Witness of Deeds
The Problem of Philosophical Biography
Witness According to Epictetus
Martyrdom and Conversion
The Conditions of a Proof
Part III: Perfection and Death
1. Dramatis Personae
2. Preparing for Death
The Archparadox of the Phaedo
Death as a Way of Life
Exhortation to Martyrdom
An Evil World or the Evil of the World?
3. The Problem of Suicide
4. Death as a Proof
Philosophers and Philomaths
False Witness and an Attempt to Avoid the Impasse
Part IV: Martyrdom as a Complete Conversion
1. Divinization
The Sage as God
Plato and Aristotle: The Issue Whether the Sage Exists
Continuation of the Discussion: Peripatetics and Stoics
2. The Christian Homoiosis Theo
Affirmation of the Spirit
Affirmation of the Body
3. The Martyr as God?
Teleioi
Foretaste of the Resurrection
Transformation of Knowledge
Transformation of Existence: Who is a Witness?
Conclusion: Faith, Knowledge, Witness

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