Philosophy and Salvation : An Essay on Wisdom, Beauty, and Love as the Goal of Life

Blanco, Carlos

Lutterworth Press（2013/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 294 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780718892937
• DDC分類 210

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An exploration of the meaning of existence in philosophical terms, presenting a different perspective on the concept of salvation and how it can be achieved.

We all seek salvation, claims Blanco, because we all become prisoners of negativity. Humanity wants to be saved, we want to overcome the negativity that so often enslaves us. But, where is the saviour to be found, and where is the source of salvation?
In Philosophy and Salvation Blanco argues that salvation may only come from the infinite springs of the word. 'The word saves us: the word of science, the word manifested in art, the word of a society which promises something for itself . . . Humanity understands itself through language: human beings use words in order to know each other and to cooperate in the edification of something that may transcend them. The word invites us, and in fact leads us to transcendence. This is salvation: to inaugurate a new world in which the former negativity may be overcome'. Blanco looks back over the history of philosophical and theological thought to bring his argument to life for all seeking salvation today.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Salvific Dimension of Thought
Part 1: In Search of Fundamentum
1 Philosophy beyond Science
2 The Senses of Being
3 The Dynamism of Being
Excursus: On the Dimensions of Being and the Limitations of the Principle of Non-contradiction
Part 2: Fundamentum in History
4 Consciousness beyond the World: Freedom
5 Freedom beyond Itself: Solidarity
6 Solidarity beyond Itself: Creation
Excursus: A Salvific History for All
Excursus: From the 'Thrownness' into the World to the Kingdom of Ends
Excursus: The Concept of Religion and the Scope of Theology
Excursus: The Names of Humanity and the Utopia of a Redeemed Past
Part 3: Questioning as Salvation
7 Death as Challenge
8 Wisdom, Love, and Beauty
Epilogue: Only a God Can Still Save Us
Appendices
Appendix A: Hegel:History, Theodicy, Art, and Redemption
Appendix B: Dilthey and the Legitimacy of the 'Sciences of the Spirit'
Appendix C: Religion as Illusion in Sigmund Freud
Appendix D: The Conception of God as Das Ganz-Andere in Rudolf Otto
Appendix E: God, the Future, and the Fundamentum of History in Wolfhart Pannenberg
Appendix F: The Rose and Its Reason
Bibliography