Syllabus
critique of racionalism
Torah
Christianity
Koran
New Age - Ludwig Feuerbach
Sören Kierkegaard
Karl Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Annotation
(Every of the blocks is supposed to take 1-3 classes)
1. Enlightenement and its explanation of the world. Obviosity of assumption of subjectivity and objektivity; home as a middle of the world for prescientific societies (we) – formal structure of their lived world; their nonreligiosity; „we“ and „them“, „ours“ and „theirs“
2. Jews – reading and discussing texts from Tora.
3. Religion as a backfire selfexplanation of societies incorporating theoretical approach and idealization – „scientific religion“, religion needing theology as a science about themselves; relation with change in the „world“ into „universum“ – imperialism of Europe – faith-hope-love; ordo and will absorbing platonism of Aurelius Augustiun – discovery of subjectification: „inner human“ – time;being = creatio
4. Christianity – reading and discussing chosen texts from New testament – relation to time; catholicism and orhodoxy – differences in their trinitology; new relation between knowledge and meaning – time-eternity- dogma of common councils and hidden knowledge about difference between lived and after being scientificied
5. Islam reading and discussing chosen texts from Kora – relation to time.
6. Fall of Aristotelian-Ptolemaian view of the world, first and second reformation, Descartes metaphysics as continuation of christian metaphysics – new age science teology of causes
7. Feuerbach – demythologization of religion by its deduction from anthropology
8. Kirkegaard – christianity as transcendence of philosophy
9. Marx – criticism of subjectivity and introducing; relation of society and religion, alienation, fetishism
10. Nietzsche – christian inversion of christianity – will-eternity; event-essence; nihilism
11. Second nature as a cave of higher order – myth, barter, symbol – science as a producent of myths of higher order, economy as a theology of market, shallowness of meaning that current man is not religious; problém of symbols and images – media and myths, transformation of world into a planet, un-sanctification un-sensation (techné); paradox from movement of colonization and planetarization – clash of universe and subjectively-relative worlds as a cause for misunderstanding with non-europeans – not understanding our european „Me“ as a foundation for not understanding others