Abstract

This epistemological study is conceived as a positive answer to the decisive philosophical and existential question concerning the possibility of true and certain human knowledge. Its author refuses to accept "the chaotic conditions" of the philosophy of our age when, owing to the prevailing immanentism and relativism, truths actually "are illusions of which it was forgotten that they are such," as Nietzsche rightly diagnosed the situation. He is convinced that the capability of knowing existing reality represents a constitutive element of the human person and that the actual defence of the knowledge of objective truth is an essential presupposition of every attempt of its theoretical denial. So he takes St. Augustine’s and Descartes’s confrontation of sceptical argumentations as a basis and uses insights and method of the early Husserl and of the thinkers of the Phenomenological School of Munich, systematically to lay the foundation of a realistic philosophy of transcendence and to secure an escape from the prison of the idealism and immanentism of transcendentalistic philosophies.