Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective - Wilfred Cantwell Smith - Grāmatas - State University of New York Press - 9780791433942 - 1997. gada 10. jūlijs
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Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Modern Culture from a Comparative Perspective

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As an historian of religion, Wilfred Cantwell Smith has investigated the way religious traditions define themselves, the nature of faith over the centuries, and the scriptures that have offered anticipations of eternity. In this book he turns to modern culture and finds that its past has been defined, not only by traditions that are normally called religious, but also by the disciplined quest for Truth. Philosophia, as this tradition may be called, draws its heritage from Greece, and has inspired scholarship throughout the ages.

However, the ideal of objectivity, which has come to define the standard for this tradition, has had unfortunate results. The human encounter with transcendence, which overwhelms all existence, has been considered as no more than a peculiarity of the human alone, to be categorized and separated from other aspects of life. The result is a dehumanized view of truth, which all too often evokes fundamentalist reactions.

Smith concludes with a call to rediscover the dimension of transcendence. Objectivity means more than reducing the human to the calculable. To treat people as they are in themselves is to understand them as subjects, to treat all aspects of their existence as worthy of respect and study, and to grasp what it means to be captured by a reality that overwhelms the confines of our limited world.

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Izlaists 1997. gada 10. jūlijs
ISBN13 9780791433942
Izdevēji State University of New York Press
Lapas 198
Izmēri 150 × 230 × 10 mm   ·   263 g
Valoda Angļu  
Ieguldītājs John W. Burbidge

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