چکیده:
This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in heaven. In this way, a point of interaction between philosophy and theology is highlighted.
خلاصه ماشینی:
It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in heaven.
Keywords: eternal life, contemporary philosophy, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, revealed theology Introduction Questions about eternal life are rational, belonging to those questions that, as Kant says, human reason "cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind" (Kant 2000, 3).
When considering contemporary approaches to questions of temporality, it can be more useful to open new possibilities to think of eternal life.
We may think of transcendence in two ways: (1) eliminating one element of immanent reality, that is, eliminating the matter to consider just the life as spirit, (2) or eliminating the difference between matter and memory, trying to think of them as being the same thing, for example a spiritual matter.
Starting from Bergson’s philosophy of temporality, we can therefore define two possibilities to think of eternal life in a transcendent way: as pure memory that understands the whole of knowledge in each content; or as spiritual matter that can replace the matter’s dispositions by its representation, considering each disposition as capable of showing all created dispositions.
A finite consciousness in eternal life can perceive all temporality of the objects without adumbrations, so it can understand all the temporal reality in the same moment.