PHIL 3080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Public Sphere, Existentialism, Religious Experience
11 Jan 2017
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Nostalgia ties us to the past but also fictionalizes it could incite people into action (maga), or leave them inactive. Our society obsessed with the spectacle and less interested in action sharing on social media, as if you"re doing something about it. Acquisition of information relieves us of responsibility of acting in one way if you keep thinking, you"ll never do anything. Action has a kind of rationality = deliberation of benefits, possibilities. Capacity to connect reflection and action is in religious inwardness, which provides a source of faith required to act: religious experience as foundation of action. Enlightenment told us that individual"s greatest power is capacity to know the world: desire for knowledge also desire to control the outcomes of the world. For kierkegaard, deliberation eliminates the essential risk of action. Story of abraham in the old testament. Enlightenment giving people creative capacity to think whether or not what they believed before is true.
