BOOKS - Between Nihilism and Faith
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Between Nihilism and Faith
Author: Karsten Harries
Year: 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.1 MB
Language: English
Year: 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.1 MB
Language: English
If the Enlightenment turned to reason to reoccupy the place left vacant by the death of God the history of the last two centuries has undermined the confidence that reason will bind freedom and keep it responsible We cannot escape this history which has issued in a pervasive nihilism and has rendered all appeals to the ethical questionable Nor could Kierkegaard The specter of nihilism haunts all of his writings as it haunts already German romanticism to which he is so indebted To exorcize it is his most fundamental concern And it is the same fundamentally religious concern that makes Kierkegaard so relevant to our situation What today is to make life meaningful If not reason does the turn to the aesthetic promise an answer To really choose is to bind freedom Either Or calls us to make such a choice i e to be authentic But what does it mean to be authentic How are we today to think of such an authentic choice As autonomous action As a blind leap As a leap of faith Either Or circles around these questions
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