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Shoah – a New Creation. Metaphysics of Evil

Tadeusz Bartoś

tbartos@ah.edu.pl

Tadeusz Bartoś - philosopher, professor at the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities, program director of the College of Philosophy and the History of Ideas. He published, amongst others, Metafizyczny pejzaż (2006 Wolność, równość, katolicyzm (2007), Jan Paweł II. Analiza krytyczna (2008), W poszukiwaniu mistrzów życia (2009), Koniec prawdy absolutnej (2010), a book-conversation with Agata Bielik-Robson, Kłopot z chrześcijaństwem. Wieczne gnicie, apokaliptyczny ogień, praca (2013) and the novel Monk. The Story of a Life That Never Was (2019). He runs the blog: www.tadeuszbartos.natemat.pl and the website tadeuszbartos.pl.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8641-1529

Aleksander Gieysztor Humanistic Academy in Pultusk

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 9 (2013), pages: 521-536

Publication date: 2013-12-01

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.600

Abstract

Many cultural factors in Europe nowadays favor the closure of the issue of the Holocaust, making it a part of the past, something that no longer affects our serene and happy „today”. Forms of forgetting include, among others, forgiveness and reconciliation. Therefore, the memory of the evil of the Holocaust requires non-forgivingeness and non-reconciliation. The medium for memory can only be hatred. However, in the Christian tradition – based on keeping up appearances and pretending to be good – it is an embarrassing problem. Holocaust victims who do not want to give up hatred are once again accused and convicted, this time by their own hypocritical culture. The consequence of recognizing the inalienability of hatred as a medium is a demand for a reconstruction of basic metaphysical concepts of European culture, namely showing the illusiveness of metaphysics of good and beauty, exploring the metaphysics of evil, and the moral demand: décreation of the world, abolishing it as a vile and intolerable thing. Metaphysics of evil is an attempt to think in terms of experience contradictory to the most deeply embedded European intellectual habits. It is an attempt to think up a world where fundamental rules are disintegration, destruction, loss, distance, parting, separation, discontinuity, incompleteness. Where good – on the scale of cosmic entropy – is only an illusion, a transitional form (negative entropy), lasting shorter than a life single human.

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Bartoś, T. (2013). Shoah – a New Creation. Metaphysics of Evil. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (9), 521-536. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.600

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                            View No. 9 (2013)

No. 9 (2013)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2013-12-01

Dział: Points of View