Religion et connaissance

Religion and Knowledge. Our understanding of the contribution of religious revelation to fundamental anthropological self-consciousness is clarified by Derrida’s remark that every linguistic communication involves an “ act of faith” independent of any particular belief. But this faith is understandable only within the framework of a hypothesis that explains the origin of the human capacity to exchange representations. Although Christian anthropology most closely approaches scientific parsimony, it is dependent on a particular historical revelation. To find the universal basis of the “ secularized” faith referred to by Derrida, it is thus necessary to rediscover the element of the Mosaic revelation left aside by Christianity, namely, the possibility manifested in the burning bush of a sacrificial scene without a victim

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