Truth Or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative TraditionTalonbooks, 2004 - 412 sivua In the tradition of James Frazer, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Thierry Hentsch retells, with new urgency and a keen critical eye, "the story of the West" that shapes our perception of the world. Yet, "the story of the West" does not exist. Only a reading of its most seminal texts--from Ulysses to Hamlet, from the Torah to the Gospels, from Plato to Descartes--can bring it alive. His tale turns on a startling discovery: The Christian message of immortality is conditional. To overcome death--the touchstone of the human condition--the believer must accept the Truth of salvation. Western civilization, by replacing God with technoscience, offers the universal promise that salvation may now be gained on earth. Yet, as a condition, it would impose its own absolute morality on the world. Truth or Death: the Biblical injunction is ours as well. |
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... thought to doubt of the truth of other things , it most clearly and certainly followed that I was ; while , on the ... thought ) , he concludes : first , that his thought ( or his thinking substance ) possesses a reality that is more ...
... thought . Even if it could be proven that , ontologically , the first precedes the second ( supposing of course that the proposition makes sense ) , thought ( or consciousness ) comes methodologically first . Subjectivity immediately ...
... thought itself has been thought by negation ! If God were to “ return , " it would be because it has so decided . In this brief moment of self - reflection , the I becomes the sovereign witness to its truth before becoming witness to ...
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A Word to the Reader | 11 |
Of Truth and Stories | 21 |
Ulysses or the Happiness of Mortals | 45 |
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