Description
The Religious Sense, the fruit of many years of dialogue with students, is an exploration of the search for meaning in life. Luigi Giussani shows that the nature of reason expresses itself in the ultimate need for truth, goodness, and beauty. These needs constitute the fabric of the religious sense, which is evident in every human being everywhere and in all times. So strong is this sense that it leads one to desire that the answer to life's mystery might reveal itself in some way.
Chapter
1 The First Premise: Realism
The Method of Research Is Imposed by the Object: A Reflection on One's Own Experience
Experience Implies an Evaluation
Criterion for the Evaluation
2 The Second Premise: Reasonableness
Reasonableness: A Structural Requirement of Man
A Particularly Important Procedure
An Application of the Method of Moral Certainty: Faith
3 The Third Premise: The Impact of Morality on the Dynamic of Knowing
Reason Inseparable from the Unity of the "I"
The Hypothesis of Reason Without Interference
An Existential Question and a Question of Method
4 The Religious Sense: The Starting Point
Aspects of the Involvement
The Materialistic Reduction
5 The Religious Sense: Its Nature
The Level of Certain Questions
The Need for a Total Answer
Disproportion Before the Total Answer
The Nature of the "I" as Promise
The Religious Sense as a Dimension
6 Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Emptying the Question
The Theoretical Denial of the Questions
The Voluntaristic Substitution of Questions
The Practical Denial of the Questions
7 Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Reduction of the Question
The Aesthetic or Sentimental Evasion
The Impossible Aspiration ("The Impotent Hope")
8 Consequences of the Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question
Incommunicativeness and Solitude
9 Preconception, Ideology, Rationality, and the Religious Sense
Preconceptions: Clarifications
The Religious Sense and Rationality
10 How the Ultimate Questions Arise: The Way of the Religious Sense
11 The Experience of the Sign
12 The Adventure of Interpretation
The Factor of Freedom Before the Ultimate Enigma
13 An Education in Freedom
Education in Freedom as Responsibility
An Education in Learning How to Ask
14 Reason's Energy Seeks to Penetrate the Unknown
A Distorting Point of View
Dynamics of the Identification of the Idol
15 The Hypothesis of Revelation: Conditions for Its Acceptability
Religious Sense
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