Truth Or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative TraditionTalonbooks, 2004 - 412 páginas In the tradition of James Frazer, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Thierry Hentsch retells, with new urgency and a keen critical eye, "the story of the West" that shapes our perception of the world. Yet, "the story of the West" does not exist. Only a reading of its most seminal texts--from Ulysses to Hamlet, from the Torah to the Gospels, from Plato to Descartes--can bring it alive. His tale turns on a startling discovery: The Christian message of immortality is conditional. To overcome death--the touchstone of the human condition--the believer must accept the Truth of salvation. Western civilization, by replacing God with technoscience, offers the universal promise that salvation may now be gained on earth. Yet, as a condition, it would impose its own absolute morality on the world. Truth or Death: the Biblical injunction is ours as well. |
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... lead . It also justifies the length and the difficulty of the journey that leads to the Law . For the Law is not simply given , it must be won . To be chosen exacts a price , and that price is suffering and humiliation . Thus the ...
The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition Thierry Hentsch. To lead astray is quite exactly the ... leads the soul by degrees toward the contemplation of the Beautiful in itself , in the kingdom of the Intelligible ...
... leads not to knowledge but to belief . There is , of course , " knowledge " of God in the joy of his presence , but there is nothing either explicable or rational about this immediacy . Not that rationality has been banished from the ...
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A Word to the Reader | 11 |
Of Truth and Stories | 21 |
Ulysses or the Happiness of Mortals | 45 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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