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| Holiness: holiness is the state of being set apart from sin and dedicated to God. It is a quality of God that is reflected in his people as they conform to his image and character. See also God, Theology, Religious belief, Religion._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Émile Durkheim on Holiness - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas IV 78 Holy/Holiness/Durkheim/Habermas: Def Holy/Durkheim: the sacred (...) is the separate, isolated. Every contact with others results in its profanation. Habermas IV 79 The sacred and the profane are not on the same level. They are heterogeneous and incommensurable. (1) The holy awakens the same ambivalent attitude as moral authority, for the holy is surrounded by an aura that at the same time frightens and attracts, terrorizes and enchants. (2) Habermas IV 80 HabermasVsDurkheim: where Durkheim tries to make the origin of the sacred clear, its connection to the tradition of philosophy of consciousness becomes apparent: Durkheim's thesis: Religions should consist of beliefs and ritual practices. For Durkheim, religion is thus an expression of a collective, supra-individual consciousness. Since consciousness needs an intentional object, Durkheim is looking for... Habermas IV 81 the object of the religious world of imagination. For religion itself, of course, this is the divine being - for Durkheim, however, "the transfigured and symbolically conceived society" hides behind it. Society is the collective to which the group members associate themselves; in short, "the collective person" is created in such a way that it reaches beyond the consciousness of the individual persons and yet at the same time is immanent. It also has all the characteristics of an awe-inspiring moral authority. (3) HabermasVsDurkheim: this is circular: the moral is attributed to the holy, this to collective ideas of an entity, which in turn should consist of a system of compulsory norms. 1. E. Durkheim, Sociologie et philosophie, Paris 1951, German Frankfurt 1967, p. 126f. 2. Ibid p. 86. 3. Ibidp. 104_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Durkheim I E. Durkheim The Rules of Sociological Method - French: Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique, Paris 1895 German Edition: Die Regeln der soziologischen Methode Frankfurt/M. 1984 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-24