File spoon-archives/habermas.archive/habermas_2000/habermas.0012, message 8


Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:04:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Gary D <gedavis1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: HAB: Emancipated development as modern way to "Grace"


--- matthew piscioneri <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am
> not sure 
> however what motif in Habermas might represent the *redemptive* or
> *return 
> to a state of grace* theme; though I do not wish to pre-empt your
> book.
> 

Though I'm not familiar with JH's views of religious issues and my
only awareness of his discussion of redemption is in early _Phil.D.of
M_, I do know that emancipation is a recovery (in the sense of
healing) that recovers (in the sense of re-enkindering or homecoming)
one's ownmost potential for self formation within one's community,
allowing one to live genuinely / authentically, rightly / justly, and
realistically / without illusion, i.e., to live in Truth (which is a
relatively predifferentiated notion). 

I would anticipate, then, that JH's views on religious issues--and
here I'm purely anticipating (wagering my own "Habermasian"
sensibility)--would de-transcendentalize religious intuitions and
motives within a social evolutionary history whose religiousity
anticipates, by retrospective reading, modernity (especially
educative humanism). 

In any event, a self formation that approaches a highly
post-conventional moral discursivity can be a very graceful thing.
Elegant even (albeit proximally vague).



Gary







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