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Etičkoj je problematici posvetio dva svoja zapažena spisa: Love, Power
and Justice i Morality and Beyond. Tillich zastupa tzv. »teonomnu etiku«
– etiku koja proizlazi iz čovjekove participacije u »moći bitka samog«
(Bogu). Takva etika – koja je najdublje povezana s ontologijom – teži prevladati
relativizam i kruti moralizam. Tillichova etička istraživanja osobito
su koncentrirana oko tri temeljna pojma: ‘ljubav’, ‘moć’ i ‘pravednost’.
Prema Tillichu, ‘ljubav’, ‘moć’ i ‘pravednost’ centralne su kategorije ne
samo teologijske i filozofijske etike, već imaju prominentnu ulogu također
u pravnim, odgojnim pa i medicinskim znanostima. Tematizirajući ova tri
pojma, Tillich nastoji dati temelje kako individualne tako i socijalne etike,
ali i drugih bitnih etičkih problema.
LOVE, POWER AND JUSTICE
Paul Tillich’s Ethics
The aim of the paper is to analyse the ethical elements in Paul Tillich’s
(1886–1965) thought. He developed his ethics in two books: Love, Power
and Justice and Morality and Beyond. Tillich’s ethics is “theonomous”: it
emerges from man’s participation in “power of being-itself” (God). Such
an ethics – in deep connection with ontology – aims to overcome relativism
and crude moralism. Special areas of Tillich’s ethical interest are concepts
of ‘love’, ‘power’ and ‘justice’. According to Tillich, ‘love’, ‘power’ and
‘justice’ are fundamental concepts not only in theological and philosophical
ethics, but they also have a prominent role in jurisprudence, educational
science and medicine. In elaboration of these concepts Tillich’s aim is to
provide basis for individual and social ethics, but also for all other fundamental
ethical problems.
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