CATH 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Abstract And Concrete
22 Dec 2016
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10 the religious sense: how the ultimate questions arise: the way of the religious sense. To answer such a question, we must identify how a person reacts to reality. Reality is essential for us to ask the ultimate questions. Humans have the tendency to sidestep reality and jump to the spiritual: you must begin from reality. Someone blind seeing something for the first time. When you aware that something is present, you are in awe of it: (cid:862)(cid:271)ei(cid:374)g(cid:863) Not an abstract entity, but as presence: original sense of a human being before reality, the origi(cid:374)al e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of the (cid:862)other(cid:863) The awe reaches you is at the origin of the awakening of human consciousness. The very first sense of the human being is that of facing a reality which is not his, which exists independently of him, and upon which he depends: a reality that is already there, that already exists.
