Extending Habermas and Ratzinger's Dialectics of Secularization: Eastern Discursive Influences on Faith and Reason in a Postsecular Age

• Authors: Jonathan Bowman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the unlikely confluence of two colossal intellectual heritages, neo-Kantian Jurgen Habermas and Catholic prelate Joseph Ratzinger agree that we have entered a post-secular age. For both, the inauguration of such an age entails skepticism towards absolutist science and a growing recognition of the contributions of spiritual worldviews to social solidarity. Following their call for a multifaceted purification in the West whereby secular and religious commitments are subjected to mutual critique, I explore potential Eastern contributions to this process by providing a micro-analysis of the interaction of discursive subjects in three traditions: for Confucianism, the rectification of names; Taoism, truth disclosure; and Buddhism, right speech.

Keywords

EN

Benedict XVI; Buddhism; Confucianism; faith; Habermas, Jurgen; reason; secularization; Taoism

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 39-55

Dates

published

2009

Contributors

author

Jonathan Bowman

• Saint Charles College, Saint Peters, USA

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