Abraham (Kierkegaard)
Absolute Spirit
actuality, ontology of
actus purus,
aestheticist attitude
After Christianity (Vattimo)
Age of Faith
Age of Interpretation
Age of Reason
“Age of the World Picture, The” (Heidegger)
agreement, epistemic arena, inter-subjective
American churches
American Religion, The (Bloom)
analytic, existential
analytic philosophy
anti-Cartesians
anticlericalism
”Anticlericalism and Atheism” (Rorty)
anti-essentialism
antiglobal protesters
arbitrariness
atheism
atheist, as term
authenticity, of interpretation
authoritarianism
Being, beings identified with, as event, historicity of, as language, pragmatic approach to, as result of dialogue, weakening of
Being and Time (Heidegger)
belief
Berlin, Isaiah
biblical references: Corinthians Epistle to the Romans, Gospel according to John, John
biblical tradition
Bildung
bioethics
Bloom, Harold
Brandom, Robert
capitalism
Cartesian thought
Catholic Church. See Church
Catholic University of Milan
charity/love, history and, linked with truth
China, ancient
Christ, See also Incarnation/ kenosis
Christianity: antimetaphysical consequences, charity/love as message of, democracy and, denial of reality principle, function of in postmodern condition, historicity of, interiority and, laic vocation, message of, missionary component, nihilism as truth of, as not yet nihilistic enough, salvific message
Church: authoritarianism of, future of, literalism of, natural law approach, project to prove objectivity, sexuality, position on, structure of
civic responsibility
civilization, as mission
classics
Common Faith, A (Dewey)
common life
commonsensical secularism
communicative reason
community
Comte, Auguste
Confucian tradition
consensus, dialogical
contextual traditions
continuity
Contribution to Philosophy (Heidegger)
conversational philosophy
creativity
Credere di credere (Vattimo)
Croce, Benedetto
culture
culture of dialogue
death of God as death of Christ as Incarnation/ kenosis,
democracy
dependence
Derrida, Jacques
Dewey, John noneschatological version of Hegel, Reconstruction in Philosophy
dialogue Being as result of, Geist as, intersubjective agreement science and, truth as
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Dotolo, Carmelo
dualisms
duty
Eigentlichkeit
empirical hypothesis, belief as
Empirical Stance, The (van Fraassen)
empiricism
Enlightenment
epistemic arena
Erasmus
Ereignis,
essence
ethical relativism
“Ethics Without Transcendence?” (Vattimo)
Eucharist
existence, historicity of
existential analytic
experience
fact, as interpretation
Fides et ratio (John Paul II)
Frankenberry, Nancy
French Revolution
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
Geist, as conversation
Gentile, Giovanni
globalization
Globalization and Its Discontents (Stiglitz)
God See also death of God; Incarnation/kenosis
grandeur
Greek thinkers
Gregory the Great
half-believers
Hegel, G. W. F. noneschatological version of
Heidegger, Martin
hermeneutics transformation of phi-losophy See also weak thought
historical spirit
historicity anti-essentialist, of Christianity, of existence of philosophy
history: charity/love and, cutoff points of metaphysics
holiness
Hume, David
Huxley, Thomas Henry
idealism
ideas
Incarnation/kenosis
institutions
interiority
interpretation description vs., existential analytic and, interiority of, truth as See also Age of Interpretation
intersubjective agreement
Introduction to the Human Sciences (Dilthey)
irony
Islam
Israel, Jonathan
Italian philosophers
James, William
Jefferson, Thomas
John Paul II
Kant, Immanuel
kenosis,
Kierkegaard, Søren
knowledge
Kramer, W.
Kuhn, Thomas
laicism
language
language games
leftists
legitimacy
Lewis, George W.
linguistic a priori
linguistic turn
logocentrism, end of
love. See charity/love
Lyotard, Jean-François
Margins of Philosophy (Derrida)
Marx, Karl
metanarratives, end of
metaphysics: end of history of
natural law approach
Nazism
Nietzsche, Friedrich on fact vs. interpretation
nihilism as goal of Christianity as truth of Christianity
nonfoundationalism
objectivity
ontology of actuality See also Being
onto-theology
oppression, religion used to legitimize
otherness
overcoming. See Überwindung
pantheistic attitude
paradigms
Pareyson, Luigi
Paul, St.
phenomenology of spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel)
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
philosophy goals of historicity of, politicization of, in postmodern condition, transformed by hermeneutics See also hermeneutics; pragmatism
Pinkard, Terry
politics
pope
positivism
postmodern condition
power God’s sacrifice of
pragmatism; antifoundational, idealistic element in
preambula fidei,
predecessors, criticism of
preunderstanding
priesthood, denial of, to women
privatization of religion
proofs
purity
Quest for Certainty, The (Dewey)
radical historicity
rationality, intersubjective agreement and
realist philosophers
reality
reality principle, denial of
reason Age of
Reconstruction in Philosophy (Dewey)
religion: analogy with science epistemic arena and freed from universality, as politically dangerous privatization of recovery of social problem of, used to legitimize oppression
religious unmusicality
Renaissance
responsibility, civic
romanticism
Rorty, Richard “Anticlericalism and Atheism,” on commonsensical secularism on dissolution of objective metaphysics, on logos nonfoundationalism of, on separation of politics and belief
rules
salvation
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
science analogy with religion dialogue and project to prove objectivity
science/religion divide
secularism, commonsensical
secularization of culture
Sein und Zeit (Heidegger). See Being and Time
separation of church and state
sexuality
sin
skepticism
social cooperation
social grammar
social hope
socialism
sociality of reason
society, roots in biblical tradition
solidarity
Stiglitz, J. E.
structure
subjectivity
symbolic forms, theology of
technoscience, objects of
tolerance
truth of charity/love, as interpretation, lack of confidence in, nihilism as philosophy’s challenge to, pursuit of agreement and, science/religion debate
Überwindung,
uncertainty
United States
universality, religion freed from demand for
Vattimo, Gianni on Being and ontology on religious oppression return to religiosity of, on secularization of Being on weak thought Works: After Christianity, “The Age of Interpretation,” Belief, Credere di credere, “Ethics Without Transcendence?”
Verwindung
weak thought from religious point of view See also hermeneutics; pragmatism
Weber, Max
welfare state
What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel (Croce)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
World Trade Organization (WTO)