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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782632003321

Autore

Giussani Luigi

Titolo

The religious sense / / Luigi Giussani ; translated by John Zucchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Buffalo : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1997

ISBN

0-7735-8150-2

0-7735-6708-9

1-282-85496-8

9786612854965

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 166 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ZucchiJohn

Disciplina

200

Soggetti

Religion - Philosophy

Reason

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of Il senso religioso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-154) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- The First Premise: Realism -- The Second Premise: Reasonableness -- The Third Premise: The Impact of Morality on the Dynamic of Knowing -- The Religious Sense: The Starting Point -- The Religious Sense: Its Nature -- Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Emptying the Question -- Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Reduction of the Question -- Consequences of the Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question -- Preconception, Ideology, Rationality, and the Religious Sense -- How the Ultimate Questions Arise: The Way of the Religious Sense -- The Experience of the Sign -- The Adventure of Interpretation -- An Education in Freedom -- Reason’s Energy Seeks to Penetrate the Unknown -- The Hypothesis of Revelation: Conditions For Its Acceptability -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Permissions

Sommario/riassunto

"The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature of reason expresses itself in the ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty. These needs constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times. So strong is this sense that it leads one to desire that the



answer to life's mystery might reveal itself in some way." "Giussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason, not as narrowly defined by modern philosophers but as an openness to existence, a capacity to comprehend and affirm reality in all of its dimensions."--Jacket