An Advocacy of "Homo Theologicus": Theologal Thinking and Being-Toward-Meaning
Human being is essentially homo theologicus. Its thinking is a theologal way of being. The origin of theological thinking is the onto-existential condition of Dasein as being in the world toward the Transcendence through death in the quest for Meaning. Transcendence is the perfect union of the ontol...
| Published in: | The international journal of religion and spirituality in society |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Common Ground Publishing
2020
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The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
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| Further subjects: | B
Theologicus
B Transcendence B Thinking B Theologicus Esse B Existence B Meaning |
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| Summary: | Human being is essentially homo theologicus. Its thinking is a theologal way of being. The origin of theological thinking is the onto-existential condition of Dasein as being in the world toward the Transcendence through death in the quest for Meaning. Transcendence is the perfect union of the ontological (Being) and the epistemological (Meaning) in an analogical relationship with the identity between "kalon" and "agathon" as present in Plato. There is an essential correspondence between Being and Meaning that has ontological preeminence over the correspondence between Being and time. The present paper examines Heidegger’s main onto-existential categories in the horizon opened by E. Stein and V. Frankl. A critical approach to Heidegger’s anthropological ontology is carried out aiming to develop a theandric ontology of Dasein. A provisional general definition of homo theologicus is acquired, in which Dasein is thought of as a thankful thinking in the perpetual celebration of Meaning. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-8641 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v11i01/79-91 |