The religious attitude

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Wolfe, Judith. (2022). The religious attitude. Archivio di Filosofia. 90(2-3), pp. 37-45. https://doi.org/10.19272/202208503004
AuthorsWolfe, Judith
Abstract

This essay begins from Husserl's argument, in the Crisis of European Sciences, for a conversion from a pre-reflective, 'natural attitude' to the world (in which the constitution and significance of surrounding things is taken for granted) to a phenomenological attitude that attends to the ways in which things and their significance are constituted in our awareness. For Husserl, religious faith is a manifestation of the natural attitude, and is superseded by phenomenological attention to the world. This essay argues for a more complex understanding of a distinctive religious attitude that shares with the phenomenological attidue a reflexive interest in the 'how' of object constitution, but involves a commitment to the constitutive agency not only of the self but also of God. The essay develops this description by analogizing a religious attitude to attudtudes relevant to aesthetic experience.

KeywordsHusserl; life world; natural attitude; religious attitude; religion and art
Year2022
JournalArchivio di Filosofia
Journal citation90 (2-3), pp. 37-45
PublisherFabrizio Serra Editore
ISSN0004-0088
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.19272/202208503004
Scopus EID2-s2.0-85199981898
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