The Religious Sense
Published on 14. May 2014
183 pages
978-0-7735-6708-5 (ISBN)
Description
Giussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers, but as an openness to existence, a capacity to comprehend and affirm reality in all of its dimensions. Part of the so-called new religious revival, The Religious Sense avoids any sentimental or irrational reduction of the religious experience. It is a forthright and refreshing call to reassess our lives.
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English
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Canada
United States
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9,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-6708-5 (9780773567085)
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Luigi Giussani | John E. Zucchi
The Religious Sense
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10/1997
McGill-Queen's University Press
€147.31
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Preface
- 1 The First Premise: Realism
- Our Subject
- The Method of Research Is Imposed by the Object: A Reflection on One's Own Experience
- Experience Implies an Evaluation
- Criterion for the Evaluation
- Elementary Experience
- Man, the Ultimate Judge?
- Ascesis for Liberation
- 2 The Second Premise: Reasonableness
- Reasonableness: A Structural Requirement of Man
- Reductive Use of Reason
- Diversity of Procedures
- A Particularly Important Procedure
- An Application of the Method of Moral Certainty: Faith
- 3 The Third Premise: The Impact of Morality on the Dynamic of Knowing
- Reason Inseparable from the Unity of the "I
- Reason Bound to Feeling
- The Hypothesis of Reason Without Interference
- An Existential Question and a Question of Method
- Another Point of View
- The Morality of Knowing
- Preconception
- 4 The Religious Sense: The Starting Point
- Premise
- How to Proceed
- The "I"-in-Action
- Involvement with Life
- Aspects of the Involvement
- A Double Reality
- Corollary
- The Materialistic Reduction
- 5 The Religious Sense: Its Nature
- Premise
- The Level of Certain Questions
- At the Core of Our Being
- The Need for a Total Answer
- Disproportion Before the Total Answer
- Structural Disproportion
- Sadness
- The Nature of the "I" as Promise
- The Religious Sense as a Dimension
- Conclusion
- 6 Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Emptying the Question
- Premise
- The Theoretical Denial of the Questions
- The Voluntaristic Substitution of Questions
- Personal Praxis
- Utopianism
- The Social Project
- The Practical Denial of the Questions
- 7 Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Reduction of the Question
- The Aesthetic or Sentimental Evasion
- The Desperate Negation
- The Impossible Aspiration ("The Impotent Hope")
- Reality as Illusion
- Nothingness as Essence
- Alienation
- 8 Consequences of the Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question
- The Break with the Past
- Incommunicativeness and Solitude
- Loss of Freedom
- 9 Preconception, Ideology, Rationality, and the Religious Sense
- Preconceptions: Clarifications
- Ideology
- Reason
- The Religious Sense and Rationality
- 10 How the Ultimate Questions Arise: The Way of the Religious Sense
- Awe of the "Presence
- The Cosmos
- Providential" Reality
- The Dependent "I
- The Law of the Heart
- Conclusion
- 11 The Experience of the Sign
- Provocation
- The Sign
- Irrational Denial
- Life as Need
- You, the Supreme Sign
- The Discovery of Reason
- Openings
- 12 The Adventure of Interpretation
- The Factor of Freedom Before the Ultimate Enigma
- The World as Parable
- 13 An Education in Freedom
- Education in Freedom as Responsibility
- An Education in Learning How to Ask
- The Experience of Risk
- 14 Reason's Energy Seeks to Penetrate the Unknown
- Reason's Driving Force
- A Vertiginous Position
- Reason's Impatience
- A Distorting Point of View
- Idols
- A Consequence
- Dynamics of the Identification of the Idol
- Conclusion
- 15 The Hypothesis of Revelation: Conditions for Its Acceptability
- Notes
- Subject Index
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