Spirituality and existential Self-Consciousness in Tugendhat

Authors

  • José V. Bonet-Sánchez Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201823291

Abstract

Philosophy of religion and mysticism of the latest Tugendhat belong to the centre of his anthropological period but are related to the whole of his previous work. The anthropological roots of spirituality lie in practical or existential self-consciousness, which refers to our life in its entirety and is exposed —Heideggerian more— to contingency. According to Tugendhat, contingency elicits religion, with its beliefs in spiritual beings (that he strongly rejects), and several forms of impersonal oriental mysticisms, such as Buddhism and Tao, which mitigate the voracity of an egotistical self. This paper analyses the Tugendhatian theorization of both phenomena and dicusses his argument in favour of atheism for the sake of “intellectual honesty”, as well as his claim of adoptng mystical doctrines but only from their practical-existential aspect.

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Published

2018-12-30

How to Cite

Bonet-Sánchez, J. V. (2018). Spirituality and existential Self-Consciousness in Tugendhat. Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Research, 5(2), 277–305. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201823291