Tragic Humanity and Hope: Understanding Our Struggle to be Scientific, Sapiential, and Moral - Couverture souple

Ojara, Pius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1556351496 ISBN 13 : 9781556351495

Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 2007

Synopsis

With insights into the thought of Gabriel Marcel, Tragic Humanity and Hope recognizes that in our age scientific knowing is becoming a dominant form of knowledge. The leadership, influence, growth, and gravitational center of human existence depend, it seems, on scientific knowledge. As a result, we live in an information age that prizes production and immediate satisfaction but devalues the cultivation of wisdom. We risk diminishing the significance of sapiential knowing to deal with the immensely complex and intricate domains of human relationality. Furthermore, inquiry into moral discernment methods expands, becoming more diverse; yet, scholarly conversations that engage the vital exigencies as founding moral sensibility seem noticeably insufficient. Tragic Humanity and Hope strives to overcome this lack. But Ojara also seeks ethical groundings that exceed the language of pragmatic utility and aesthetic preference. Foundations of morality cannot exclude questions of the common good and shared moral obligations that free people to reach out to one another with hopes and memories that endow life with shared meaning. Through continuity and cohesion that the interlacing of scientific, sapiential, and moral knowing bring, life becomes a marvelous expression of light, joy, and fervor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Pius Ojara is a graduate student at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. In 2003 he received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Zimbabwe. He is the author of The Return of Conversion (2004) and Toward a Fuller Human Identity (2006). Ojara is working on another book tentatively titled Faith, Culture, and Church as Family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf and Stock
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1556351496
• ISBN 13: 9781556351495
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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• Personne responsable: non disponible