Post-metaphysical thinking and religion: Practical reason, solidarity and the dialogue between philosophy and religion as a political task

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Published: Oct 13, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.14710
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Habermas post-secular society religion practical reason solidarity
Spyridon Kaltsas
Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3343-7888
Abstract

In my paper I develop a critical account of Habermas’s recent turn to religion in the theoretical context determined by the concept of post-secular society. In my view the dialogue between post-metaphysical thinking and religion has to be understood as a political task. More specifically this dialogue aims to the reevaluation and extension of practical reason’s normative claims and has to be conceived as a response to the uncontrolled modernization which undermines social solidarity and leaves no place for the autonomy of practical reason. Furthermore I outline a critique of Habermas’s main theoretical strategy in regard to the problem of motivation of practical reason and the question of mediation between theory and praxis in the context of a critical theory of society.

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