The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and EvilOxford University Press, 2001 M04 5 - 176 páginas Various historians, philosophers, and social scientists have attempted to provide convincing explanations of the roots of violence, with mixed and confusing results. This book brings Kierkegaard's voice into this conversation in a powerful way, arguing that the Christian intellectual tradition offers the key philosophical tools needed for comprehending human pathology. |
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... human emotion. Human beings experience angst because they are coming into existence as spiritual creatures. This theme is brought out through a contrast with David Hume's Natural History of Religion. Where Hume depicts human beings as ...
... human emotion. Human beings experience angst because they are coming into existence as spiritual creatures. This theme is brought out through a contrast with David Hume's Natural History of Religion. Where Hume depicts human beings as ...
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... human existence and expresses it in the repeated phrase: "in this world love is hated." Humanity's hatred and distrust toward God expressed itself in the crucifixion of Christ. Christ is at the same time the exemplar of the authentic ...
... human existence and expresses it in the repeated phrase: "in this world love is hated." Humanity's hatred and distrust toward God expressed itself in the crucifixion of Christ. Christ is at the same time the exemplar of the authentic ...
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... human behavior in the marketplace of ideas. I argue, in fact, that secular ... existence is very helpful as a mode of social understanding. The Nazis ... existence before God. They hold that he viewed social relations in an entirely ...
... human behavior in the marketplace of ideas. I argue, in fact, that secular ... existence is very helpful as a mode of social understanding. The Nazis ... existence before God. They hold that he viewed social relations in an entirely ...
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... existence of the individual before God, precisely because he realized that it is out of this relationship that ... human condition but also calls human beings to a life of responsible and loving relations with the neighbor. This call to ...
... existence of the individual before God, precisely because he realized that it is out of this relationship that ... human condition but also calls human beings to a life of responsible and loving relations with the neighbor. This call to ...
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... human existence is extremely thoughtprovoking and challenging. I argue that his understanding of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism can be effectively coordinated with Kierkegaard's vision of the "vertical" dimension of existence ...
... human existence is extremely thoughtprovoking and challenging. I argue that his understanding of mimetic desire and the scapegoat mechanism can be effectively coordinated with Kierkegaard's vision of the "vertical" dimension of existence ...
Contenido
3 EgoProtection in Kierkegaard | |
4 The Kierkegaardian Understanding of Violence | |
5 Kierkegaard and Girard | |
6 Are Secular Perspectives on Violence Sufficient? | |
7 The Problem of Christian Violence | |
8 Political Violence in the Twentieth Century | |
The Healing of the Soul | |
Bibliography and Kierkegaard Sigla | |
Index | |
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The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil Charles K. Bellinger Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
The Genealogy of Violence: Reflections on Creation, Freedom, and Evil Charles K. Bellinger Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
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Alice Miller alienation Anabaptist angst Anti-Climacus argues articulate Atonement attempt Barth basic Becker become Carl Jung Christ Christendom Christian Church Concept of Anxiety conscious created Creator crowd culture demonic Denial of Death describes despair discourse divine Eric Voegelin Ernest Becker eternal ethical evil Father fear Gilligan Girard’s thought God’s Gospels Haufniensis Hitler human existence human race idea individual’s insights interpretation Jung Karl Barth Kierkegaard and Girard Kierkegaard’s thought Kierkegaardian kill live maturity Miller mimetic desire moral nature Nazi Naziism neighbor Nietzsche one’s oneself penal substitution person philosophical political possibility process of creation psychological reader reality relationship religion religious René Girard roots of violence scapegoat secular seeks sense shadow Sickness unto Death single individual social society spiritual Stalinism theme theological theory thinkers tion trans true truth understanding University Press untruth vision Voegelin words Zygmunt Bauman