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The Drama of Humanity

Towards a Philosophy of Humanity in History

Brendan M. Purcell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

X, 295 Seiten

1996
Lang, Peter Frankfurt (Verlag)
978-3-631-49099-0 (ISBN)

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This inquiry into the drama of humanity opens with a reflection on its first act some 40,000 years ago. That drama is explored as unfolding through the quest for the ground of existence in mythic, philosophic, revelational, and post-ideological experience. Palaeolithic symbolizations, the Greek tragic poets, Plato's Symposium, Aristotle on friendship, the Book of Job, St. John's Gospel, and the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn are explored as illuminating moments in the meditative anamnesis of the constant quest of human consciousness. Arising from these empirical studies, the theoretical understanding of humanity is developed in terms of our intrinsic we-wardness. Bernard Lonergan's hermeneutic context of universal viewpoint and Eric Voegelin's notion of universal humanity are discussed and presupposed throughout the study.

The Author: Brendan Purcell was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1941. He studied philosophy at University College Dublin, and theology at the Lateran University in Rome. After ordination for Dublin diocese in 1967, he began work on a doctorate in psychology at the Catholic University of Leuven, completing it at University College Dublin. He was appointed full-time lecturer in logic and psychology there in 1972, and is now on the staff of the Department of Philosophy.

Contents: Humanity's common origins - Universal humanity in Greek tragedy and philosophy, in Job and St. John, and in Solzhenitsyn - Humanity as intrinsically we-wards.

'Brendan Purcell has written with force and seriousness about the most exalted of topics. His work is a fine example of the judicious philosopher who can see how revelation addresses itself to obscure and hitherto unresolved human issues.'The Drama of Humanity' is a splendid example of a philosophical quest that takes all sources of knowledge seriously, including revelation.' (James V. Schall, Homiletic and Pastoral Review)

Zusatzinfo	1 fig.
Verlagsort	Frankfurt
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	3-631-49099-2 / 3631490992
ISBN-13	978-3-631-49099-0 / 9783631490990
Zustand	Neuware