The atrophy of metaphysical imagination at the root of atheism
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https://doi.org/10.12775/TiCz.2014.057Keywords
anthropology, atheism, Holocaust, Second Vatican Council, humanityAbstract
The last century was a time of the tragic experience of evil in the form of Auschwitz and Kolyma. For this reason, many people have announced the death of God and denied the sense of humanity as such. In other words, the twentieth century was a time when evil occurred because of man, humans were wrongdoers. This issue was taken up, inter alia, by Hannah Arendt, a witness to the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel. As a result of this event, in 1963, she published a controversial, especially in the Jewish world, book Eichmann in Jerusalem, which has argued for the banality of evil. According to this conception, those who were responsible for crimes committed during the totalitarian period of the last century, weren’t always utterly depraved. What does it mean? Arendt concluded that often they were persons whom political systems allowed for complete thoughtlessness while doing things. This paper argues that today the current question is: what’s the cause of atheism? The general answer is that at the core of the modern phenomenon of atheism and evil, of course in the context of the last world war crimes, is the atrophy of metaphysical imagination, most seriously manifested in the failure to perceive the Absolute dimension, which gives rise to a specific ethos.
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