ABSTRACT
Theology and philosophy, as archaeo-logical discourses, share the same calling to ground human experience in giving our life-world a fundamental meaning. Thus, they tend to confuse with each other. However, I argue, whereas theology’s discourse is a constructive one, as it performs the ultimate meaning of the world by an axiomatic and paradigmatic analogical predication of what God is, philosophy, on the contrary, de-constructs what theology ultimately proposes. When philosophy advances a new interpretation of the world, it turns into theology, just as theology becomes philosophy when it breaks down the foundation of the actual world-view. Neither of both could exist without the other, and every other science is unable to undertake the task of questioning the roots of our world-views, as they are incapable of building a whole new world-view at any given time. Without these archaeological discourses, worlds become meaningless. Only by this double-movement of hermeneutics and deconstruction can Philosophy and Theology be still meaningful in our present time, articulating sense in our life-world and enabling the deep questioning of this very sense.
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Martin Grassi
Martin Grassi PhD in Philosophy (University of Buenos Aires). Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET). Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Post-doc fellow at the University of Bonn and the University Paris I-La Sorbonne (2018-2020). University of Oxford-John Templeton Foundation Post-doc fellow at the University of Oxford and the University of Bonn (2016). Author of five books on philosophy, the last of which is Una historia crítica de la idea de vida. El paradigma bio-teo-político de la autarquía (2022).