Courses / Module

Toggle Print

Module PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION IN THE MODERN AGE

Module code: PH356
Credits: 5
Semester: 1
Department: PHILOSOPHY
International: Yes
Coordinator: Dr Cyril McDonnell (PHILOSOPHY)
Overview Overview
 

This module examines Kant’s famous critique of transcendental arguments in metaphysics in his Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787) as background to some important new lines of thinking which it provoked in philosophy of religion in the 19th-, 20th- and 21st- centuries, beginning with Hegel’s account of the historical march of reason in the concept of Absolute Spirit; Kierkegaard’s rejection of Hegel’s rationality of divine immanence, in deference to a thinking about the reality of the absurd and the significance of individual faith in the Absolute Other (God), beyond aesthetic and ethical spheres of human existence; Schleiermacher’s reflections on the feeling of absolute dependence on the infinite, characteristic of religious self-consciousness in all religions; Levinas’s critique of Heidegger’s atheistic-amoral existential phenomenology of Being and Time (1927) and retrieval of the rationality of transcendence in the trace of the infinite in ‘the face of the other’ through service to one’s fellow human being as manifested in ethical-religious experience; Desmond’s reflections on God and the Between (2008), beyond Hegel and Kant, yet in concert with a philosophical faith in the createdness of all things out of nothing.

Open Learning Outcomes
 
Open Teaching & Learning methods
 
Open Assessment
 
Open Autumn Supplementals/Resits
 
Open Timetable
 
Back to top Powered by MDAL Framework © 2022
V5.3.3 - Powered by MDAL Framework © 2022