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| Url: | http://percaritatem.com/ |
| Author(s): | Facebook User |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | Theology, Philosophy, Christianity (Anglican) |
| Description: | A blog devoted to charitable discussion of all things theological, philosophical and beautiful. |
| Ratings |  (66 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 198 Followers |
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Part I: An Introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer
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In his magnum opus, Truth and Method, Gadamer displays his knowledge not only of the modern tradition (Kant, Heidegger, Hegel, Schleiermacher) but likewise his knowledge of and interest in the anci...more |
2009-11-29
On American Mythologies and Thanksgiving
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Below are excerpts from a post on catholicanarachy.org. I find the reflections both provocative and worthy of serious consideration.Thanksgiving in the united states is a holiday observed by pious...more |
2009-11-26
Part II: Fanon’s Descent Under the Burden of the White Gaze
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The history of black people, as mentioned previously, is simultaneously erased and re-written by the white imagination. This new history defines what a black person is—intellectually inferior, in ...more |
2009-11-20
Part I: Fanon’s Descent Under the Burden of the White Gaze
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In his book, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon challenges Merleau-Ponty’s inclusive notion of a corporeal schema and substitutes his own schemata, first an historical-racial schema, and second ...more |
2009-11-17
Rowan Williams on the Continuity-in-Discontinuity of Theological History (Re)writing
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“By the time the first texts in the New Testament were being written, Christians were aware of tensions over whether they still shared the same identity as Jews; there were no short answers (there ...more |
2009-11-11
Descartes’ Ambivalent Relationship with Tradition
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Descartes is often referred to as the “father” of modern philosophy and for good reasons. In several of his works, Descartes speaks openly of his frustrations with his philosophical predecessors, ...more |
2009-11-04
Dante’s Holistic Theological Poetry
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For Dante the ultimate meaning of human history can be understood in terms of salvation history. That is, Dante believes strongly in God’s providential guidance over human history; yet, within God...more |
2009-10-25
Augustine’s Confessions as a Re-Write of Virgil’s Aeneid
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Many scholars have commented on the polyphonic (using Bakhtin’s term) character of Augustine’s Confessions, particularly his use of biblical allusions, quotations and the like. In this post, I foc...more |
2009-10-13
Gadamer on Symbolon and the Zugehörigkeit of Language and Reality
| Gadamer understands language as having an ability to enhance the intelligibility of reality and thus make the truth of things more evident. Wachterhauser offers a way into Gadamer’s claim by turnin...more |
2009-09-21
Charles Taylor on Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Experience of the Other and the Changed Self
| “In coming to see the other correctly, we inescapably alter our understanding of ourselves. Really taking in the other will involve an identity shift in us. That is why it is so often resisted an...more |
2009-09-18
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