Jean-Luc Marion Interview With Donald Wallenfang On Faith
This document summarizes an interview discussing the relationship between faith and reason. It makes the following key points:
1. The distinction between faith and reason that is often taken for granted today was not clearly defined until the rise of universities in the medieval period.
2. In the late 19th/early 20th century, there was a crisis as rationality could no longer provide definitive answers to questions about God, the soul, and the limits of human knowledge.
3. Now we are experiencing an expansion of new forms of rationality beyond the limits of pure reason, rather than a conflict between faith and reason. Questions are better approached through diverse forms of rationality rather than a narrow definition.
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Jean-Luc Marion Interview With Donald Wallenfang On Faith
This document summarizes an interview discussing the relationship between faith and reason. It makes the following key points:
1. The distinction between faith and reason that is often taken for granted today was not clearly defined until the rise of universities in the medieval period.
2. In the late 19th/early 20th century, there was a crisis as rationality could no longer provide definitive answers to questions about God, the soul, and the limits of human knowledge.
3. Now we are experiencing an expansion of new forms of rationality beyond the limits of pure reason, rather than a conflict between faith and reason. Questions are better approached through diverse forms of rationality rather than a narrow definition.
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was not philosophers there is not a lot of them made not made by the Christian until you feminism who would claim to theologians who by the way we are not have an a priori definition of reason using theologians moment and not really anymore we have only an epistolary use admitted by the non-christian thinkers of reason that is as long as we produce they were chasing truth with all means arguments as long as we but rationality [Music] into new fields we say that this reason religion philosophy rhetoric and so on but the new fields we try to make more the distinction between faith and reason rational where an are beyond the limits was build up with the foundation of the of pure reason as understood in the past universities when they were suddenly two I give some examples the question of the faculties faculty of theology the first soul is now who partly loudly by not and the Faculty of art for all the rest biological sciences or sciences of mind from that moment on during the medieval and 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of surprise what means something in art which cannot and seem like that which means that now be rationalized so to speak if you think we cannot imagine that that we can't of narrow understanding of reason same continue to rationalize the word we have thing for intersubjectivity students to come to terms with the word intersubjectivity cannot be explained and with the limits of the word so to simply by the law of the market or by impose rationality will mean as a biology when you deal with another self- catastrophe or something completely there are some other rules so schools different and same thing for the are known as rule of fate a reduction question of God we so-called that's what deal equality many other things which God means in fact that she lot of he was should become rational as there is unable to say anything anymore about God violence in the relation to the other so, so and philosophy was not ready to when the rationality the special say to say I am out of I'm silent in rationality which can make sense in that front of that question which too situation is not known so this action difficult for me see the philosopher which face in reason is an old-fashioned said we can think without God but in historically questionable and rational fact it was not God wood was dead it was inaccurate way to ask a question. the way philosophy modern philosophy could ask the question of God and so the question of God has survived the death of God easily and the so-called return of God of region he stupid to say that because religion and God has never left the scene they simply now it comes back DeYoung our decision that God is rational but God is not irrational this our rationality which is too narrow for God so Z is why now we are more experiencing an expansion of new forms of rationality beyond the limit of e so-called Pure Reason of metaphysics then any conflict between faith and reason and faith is for some questions some issues Givenness | Part 3 of 7 | The Phenomenology of Jean-Luc that precedes the phenomenon Marion rather it links what shows itself to what gives itself In the last video we discussed how though denying itself any grounding metaphysics givenness does proclaim a kind of offers a grounded certainty by certainty establishing this ungrounded certainty comes in the conditions that limit what can appear pure fact that relegating something has shown itself that an all that does not conform as appearance has been made fundamentally unknowable and nonsensical in other words it concerns the arriving the subject in its synthesizing function passing and withdrawal of appearance deploys these conditions in its act of appearing for when one representing phenomena to itself as doubts objects of knowledge the analysis of only a cause is doubted not the pollock's painting exposes the facticity of the appearance itself limitations of this philosophical i may have mistakenly believed i was orientation being chased the effect of the painting upon me which only to discover it was just a dream but other systems of thought flee from what i doubt is not the happening itself is the origin of thought itself however that indeed i was being affected in a appreciating that very particular manner analysis requires overcoming some rather rather i doubt its ontological status recalcitrant presuppositions meaning and causes first among them is a radical divide upon awakening i ask myself whether it between the flux of appearances really happened and an unchanging reality the history of that is whether the experience took philosophy may be characterized and place in waking or dreaming not without some oversimplification as i ponder the meaning and source of the an extended dynamic dialectic between dream perhaps it represented an those unconscious conflict metaphysicians who seek a ground a working out of the day's worries or residing before even just behind or beyond the flux and those random neural firings you see each time skeptics who resign themselves to i doubt the impossibility of achieving certainty i directed at everything except the towards such a ground appearing of the phenomenon itself phenomenology as the study of and no amount of post hoc explanation appearances which the can dissolve this etymological root would suggest attends unbidden arising one may doubt to this flux interpretations but neither embraces the proclaimed knowledge and understanding about the uncertainty of radical skepticism appearance but not that nor grounds appearances in ideal it appeared nor that it came into transcendences appearance instead it transgresses perceived thus what has served as the greatest impressions to return to the way source of skepticism the appearance these appearances through their is indeed the most indubitable effectivity arise possibility for thought in their original state of unconditional while what is often conferred the self-manifestation greatest certainty the explanatory power the concept deployed by such a of theoretical reason phenomenology is named is the most dubious of all skeptics have givenness givenness is the non-ground identified the flux as support for their but absolute condition by which position phenomena appear but their uncertainty is not due to the in opposition to metaphysics a flux itself phenomenology of givenness but to the conditions of production that establishes phenomena on their own terms turn that flux into a spectacle a not in reference to preceding conditions spectacle however appears according to whether it be causes the measure of the spectator's gaze principles of logic or a priori concepts and that gaze often unbeknown to itself of the mind is in its own perpetual state of flux given this itself is not a principle maintaining a semblance of permanence for only so long before giving way to at first this might seem like a the next forms contradiction how can we reconcile the of objectification that attract it claim that the phenomena shows itself skepticism is merely the culmination of from itself this activity when it requires another for it to a gaze fatigued by its own misguided appear let's consider an example in ever-shifting search for permanence which a friend comes to my door givenness is the principle that links i must decide whether to let him in when the indubitable flux of appearance he arrives to its manner of appearing it is the at the same time i would be unable to fold of the given phenomenon that shows let him in if he hadn't come at all itself or if he leaves before i open the door from itself in its reception this leads did my friend come on his own accord yes to the did he show himself upon opening the central principle of this phenomenology door yes what did i have to open the door for my shows itself first gives itself friend to appear to me one begins with the surface of the given yes as will be discussed later when the appearance as such addressing the self who receives the this however is no mere appearance the given surface of the given cannot be we must bypass the binary of activity limited to sense data what shows itself and passivity here is not a static despite that being a point of contention object a spectacle but a manner of often directed at this phenomenology so arriving the appearing the difficulty with given this is of what appears the initiative of this perhaps not so much appearing in acknowledging it but in the relevance always belongs to the phenomenon itself of what there's no preceding condition essential superficially seems so obvious and taken being for granted secret pneumonia or representation that one could be left with the question so makes givenness possible what this is what it means for the phenomenon that question can't be answered fully to give itself in showing itself without turning to the phenomena a showing could be interpreted in terms themselves this has always been the case of causality for phenomenology however but it would obfuscate the intrinsic whose claims must be tested in the character of the phenomenon's arrival active buyers of rigorous thinking such was illustrated in my example of phenomenology doesn't yield knowledge in pollock's painting when i discovered the the abstract origin of its effects rather one must do phenomenology and within the showing of the painting behold the fruits it yields itself and from that this is the test of its principles the could trace the invisible modes of its challenge of conducting this test arrival as it opposed is that the given conceals givenness and itself upon me though all that shows what we often begin with itself gives itself instead are the visible phenomena it doesn't hold however that all that consequently gives itself we must next consider the means for shows itself this gap between showing leading what shows itself and giving calls for two tasks first back to the given connecting the phenomenology begins with the surface of appearing with what appears the given what shows itself this requires employing a and works backwards to arrive at phenomenological reduction givenness and the more rigorously this reduction second the work of hermeneutics assists is accomplished the given to show itself the more givenness we will discover in other words showing requires a and that will be the topic of the next capacity and willingness to receive the video thank you for watching given please feel free to leave a comment or and convert it into a phenomenon question down below this is performed by a finite self and i'll see you next time situated in particular horizons of you understanding