Abstract

A good deal of discussion about the existence of God among contemporary continental philosophers centres on the anthropological conditions that precede the affirmation or denial of such a being. The starting point is the person centred world of the existentialists, the phenomenologists and the personalists, and not the cosmological centred universe of the medieval world. It is one’s view of man and what one considers to be most profound in man, that leads some philosophers to affirm the existence of God today and which leads others to deny his existence. More specifically it is their views on intersubjectivity, that is on the relationships between persons, that marks the parting of the ways between these two groups of philosophers today.