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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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