Eclipse de Dios: estudios sobre las relaciones entre religión y filosofía

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Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993 - Philosophy - 179 pages
Afirma Martin Buber en estos "Estudios sobre las relaciones entre religión y filosofía" que "existe un eclipse de Dios de igual forma que existe un eclipse solar, y la hora que nos toca vivir es una hora de tiniebla." Así, al reflexionar sobre la relación que ha mantenido el hombre con el Absoluto a los largo de la historia desde la antigüedad al tiempo presente, el filósofo vienés considera que Dios se ha convertido en algo irreal para el hombre contemporáneo. Esta situación no ha sido fortuita, sino que tiene su causa en la evolución de la filosofía occidental, pues se trata de una filosofía centrada en el individuo que objetiviza la realidad (yo-ello) y no en una persona que existe y experimenta a partir de la relación dialógica (yo-tú).

About the author (1993)

Martin Buber was born in Vienna, the son of Solomon Buber, a scholar of Midrashic and medieval literature. Martin Buber studied at the universities of Vienna, Leipzig, Zurich, and Berlin, under Wilhelm Dilthey and Georg Simmel. As a young student, he joined the Zionist movement, advocating the renewal of Jewish culture as opposed to Theodor Herzl's political Zionism. At age 26 he became interested in Hasidic thought and translated the tales of Nahman of Bratslav. Hasidism had a profound impact on Buber's thought. He credited it as being the inspiration for his theories of spirituality, community, and dialogue. Buber is responsible for bringing Hasidism to the attention of young German intellectuals who previously had scorned it as the product of ignorant eastern European Jewish peasants. Buber also wrote about utopian socialism, education, Zionism, and respect for the Palestinian Arabs, and, with Franz Rosenzweig, he translated the Bible. He was appointed to a professorship at the University of Frankfurt in 1925, but, when the Nazis came to power, he received an appointment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Buber died in 1965.

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