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Ghislain Lafont - Collection La nuit surveillée
Résumé
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A deep crisis can also be a time of hope. Today we know that the civilisation of logos, present in the West for almost two thousand years in constant dialectic between philosophy and Christianity, is arriving at a point of accomplishment and exhaustion. At the outset, it put its trust in global explanations. In Antiquity, they found their ideal form: the logos took a turn toward the mystic, a Beyond everything that left neither Christianity nor Islam indifferent. In modernity, it was organised in a perfectly immanent (Spinoza) or carefully historical (Hegel, Marx) manner. Today it moves on, but given the exhaustion of ideas and constructions that gave it body and meaning, all that remains is its essentially mathematical armature, stripped of all reality, except that of the number - which, in today's language, we call 'virtual'. Today we can assemble the efficacy of those thoughts and practices penetrated with the dynamic of All or Nothingness. But from where we are standing now, there is a real threat that the All will tumble into the Nothingness and we will head for an ethical, human and cosmic catastrophe. This civilisation probably lacked respect for Something: not all, not nothing, but substance, action, relation. Here Aristotle in Antiquity, and Thomas Aquinas at the threshold of modernity, can come to our assistance and help us not to flee the strange phenomenon of matter penetrated by what we call spirit, which is both immanent to and beyond it, but to find our substance as men and restore a humanism and a non-alienating approach to the divine. Here undoubtedly lies a pattern of hope. But today, this great pattern resides above all in an anthropological tendency: today we understand that man doesn't exist without his brother, who speaks to him. In the light of this essential conversation, we must succeed in defining a humanism and a policy a prospect opens to reinterpret religion and Christianity in particular. On the horizon, the symbol appears the relation, death and resurrection, love.
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Ghislain Lafont |
Collection | La nuit surveillée |
Parution | 08/10/2009 |
Nb. de pages | 327 |
Format | 13.4 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 420g |
EAN13 | 9782204089890 |
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