Eine metaphysische Geschichte des Atheismus

Abstract

The essay explores Charles Taylor’s „A Secular Age” and focuses on following shortcomings of the work: Is the separation of the sacred and the profane a loss or an intensivation of religiosity? Does the Kantian universalist ethics not represent an increased commitment to basic Christian ideas? Must not even atheism be interpreted as a step in the self-unfolding of the divine? Taylor’s remarkable work is interpreted as being too strongly committed to Catholic personalism and not sufficiently familiar with the Protestant theological tradition. 13 Vg. V. Hösle, The Lost Prodigal Son’s Corporal Works of Mercy and the Bridegroom’s Wedding. The Religious Subtext of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, in: Anglia, 126 (2008), 477–502. 14 V. Hösle, Die Philosophie der ökologischen Krise, München 1991, 25 ff. 15 Ders., Moral und Politik, a. a. O., 25 ff. 16 Ebd., 293 f.