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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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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 reason itself the so-called pure reason

the self-sustaining reason the reason


Interview with Donald imposing principle of rationality and so
Wallenfang on Faith on the a priori reason became at other
in defining itself the crisis of
and Reason YT.com principles did not only happen in
On the question of faith and reason even fundamental physics and we are not we
if you consider beyond cyclic phillotson did not get out of that yet but it is
ratio with which I completely agree also in in in philosophy as well so now
indeed other reservation about the the opposition between reason and phase
formulation of the question because as implies that reason knows exactly what
an historian of philosophy is well known it can do what it cannot know he knows
I wonder why we take for granted that the limits of reason of beyond the
there is such a distinction of unison limits this is V rational here phase
reason at least we can say that during okay very simple but now reason as
the ten first twelve first centuries of developed and referred to by the best
our area this distinction 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 sing like that but bicycle and
period the distinction between 0 G phase wishes
and one side in arts that he sciences this is so called in consciousness which
and so on and so few reason was built is the real field where the question of
and when they were the Enlightenment the soul is now studied and in practice
it was exactly in continuity with the the question of the word what is the
medieval distinction and this word the question of the world now it's
distinction as flourish up to the moment very clear the word is not the summation
which happen in me I would say the turn of all the possible objects the word is
of 1920 century at the moment when a finite world
nature's finite nature historical we can the right form of rationality in the
destroy nature is the place which same way than in art for instance
is under the threat of global warming rationality is not mathematical you have
but you'll see also waste production of a good feeling a good appreciation of
waste of any shortcomings 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

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