Anselm and Heidegger: A Disquieting Analogy

• 作者: Maria Leonor Xavier
• 来源期刊: 哲学研究:英文版
• 学科: 哲学
• 关键词: Saint ANSELM Cur Deus HOMO man SALVATION Martin Heidegger PHILOSOPHY of RELIGION PHILOSOPHY of technicity
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（3）
• 页码范围: 144-150
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: B

摘要

This article deals with the human design of salvation and the question of man under the common stimulus of two grand names of philosophical tradition, though parted by more than nine centuries: Saint Anselm and Martin Heidegger. Both defend the need for a God who saves man: according to Anselm, due to the consequences of evil, which man consented and cannot revert;according to Heidegger, due to the consequences of technicity, which man created and can no longer control. In any case, the design of salvation posits the question of man: Why man? This question was considered ever since the remote 12th century, in a time of renovation for European culture, and is once again posited with special acuteness in our days, in a time of accelerated technological progress of human civilization. Which is why Anselm’s reflection around salvation and the medieval question of man may open doors towards re-equating the value of man in its actual state and in the future horizon of humanity?