On the Kinds of Faith with Reference to Knowledge (II).

The presented text is a translation into Polish of the second part of Alexander I. Vvedensky’s article entitled On the Kinds of Faith with Reference to Knowledge. The Russian philosopher claims that faith is a condition which excludes doubt differently as does knowledge. He distinguishes only three kinds of faith in its pure form, i.e., “naive faith”, “blind faith” and “faith recognized by the critical reason”, which includes “empty faith” and “conscious faith”. We deal with “the naive faith” when a critical activity of our reason has not been awaken yet. We talk about “the blind faith” when the doubts of the reason are conquered by force. “Faith recognized by the critical reason” is divided into “empty faith” and “conscious faith” depending on the value of its motives. Vvedensky distinguishes the intuitive knowledge from the discursive knowledge.