Szerző dc.contributor.author | Hörcher Ferenc | |
Elérhetőség dátuma dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-06T08:40:55Z | |
Rendelkezésre állás dátuma dc.date.available | 2024-06-06T08:40:55Z | |
Kiadás dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
Issn dc.identifier.issn | 2077-1444 | |
Uri dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12944/25371 | |
Kivonat dc.description.abstract | This study addresses Roger Scruton’s understanding of what he called “moments of revelation”. In two short essays, both entitled “Effing the ineffable”, Scruton framed his discussion of moments of revelation with reference to the medieval Christian mystical discourse. Introducing the medieval discussion of this topic, this study provides an analysis of Scruton’s approach to the theme. In tune with the traditional discourse on revelation, his general aim was to demonstrate that there are ways of revealing important truths about the supernatural, of the world “beyond the window”, that do not require words to be pronounced. He calls our experiences of such phenomena moments of revelation and identifies four different transitory sources of revelation. This study deals with them one by one, after considering whether it is right to label such a revelation transcendental. The four sources of Scruton’s moments of revelation are natural beauty, the beauty of painting, the beauty of music, and personal encounters. The first three examples are connected to his thoughts on art and beauty as a substitute of divine revelation. Perhaps the most surprising of these is the last ones, moments of intersubjective human relationships, “our knowledge of each other”. Relying on both Buber and Levinas, Scruton makes the strong claim that it is in the other that we can experience that world “beyond the window”. His phenomenological exploration of human encounters sheds light on concepts like grace, shekhinah, or real presence and gift. He explains the Christian understanding of the human–divine relationship as well along the lines of the nature of interpersonal human relationship, both of them being in a certain sense, he claims, transcendental. From grace, his account moves forward to self-sacrifice and finally arrives at his idiosyncratic understanding of gratefulness for life. His moments of revelation in art and interpersonal exchange turn out to be, indeed, late and secular versions of the Christian understanding of revelation. In its summary, this study claims that revelation, understood by Scruton as a form of general human experience, allows to catch a glimpse of that which is beyond the window, by the direct, sensually based experience of either the existence of another person or of the beauty of nature and art. | |
Nyelv dc.language | en | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | Roger Scruton | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | effing the ineffable | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | moments of revelation | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | transcendental | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | gift | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | self-sacrifice | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | grace | |
Kulcsszó dc.subject | gratefulness | |
Cím dc.title | Beyond the Window That Can Never Be Opened—Roger Scruton on Moments of Revelation in Human Life | |
Típus dc.type | folyóiratcikk | |
Változtatás dátuma dc.date.updated | 2024-06-05T12:27:05Z | |
Változat dc.description.version | kiadói | |
Hozzáférés dc.rights.accessRights | nyílt hozzáférésű | |
Doi azonosító dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/rel15040485 | |
Tudományág dc.subject.discipline | Társadalomtudományok | |
Tudományterület dc.subject.sciencebranch | Társadalomtudományok/Politikatudományok | |
Mtmt azonosító dc.identifier.mtmt | 34793213 | |
Folyóirat dc.identifier.journalTitle | Religions | |
Évfolyam dc.identifier.journalVolume | 15 | |
Füzetszám dc.identifier.journalIssueNumber | 4 | |
Terjedelem dc.format.page | 15.jan | |
Scopus azonosító dc.identifier.scopus | 85191582546 | |
Folyóiratcím rövidítve dc.identifier.journalAbbreviatedTitle | RELIGIONS | |
Kiadás éve dc.description.issuedate | 2024 | |
Szerző intézménye dc.contributor.department | Politika- és Államelméleti Kutatóintézet | |
Szerző intézménye dc.contributor.department | Filozófiai Intézet | |
Szerző intézménye dc.contributor.department | Politika- és Államelméleti Kutatóintézet |