[FL 2820] Person, Truth, and Freedom
Semester II
wednesday
16:30 -
18:15
Course Information
Schedule:
Semester II
wednesday
16:30 -
18:15
Content
. What does it mean to speak about “persons”?
- The relation between truth and freedom
- Modern “scientism”: its history and implications
- The freedom to promise and to forgive
- Building the Kingdom on earth? A critique of social and technological utopianism
- The truth and meaning of our mortality
Bibliography
Bibliography : H. Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility, Chicago 1984. S. Kampowski, Embracing Our Finitude. Exercises in a Christian Anthropology, Oregon 2018. J. Ratzinger, “Truth and Freedom”, Communio 23 (1996), pp. 16-35. R. Spaemann, Persons. The Difference between “Someone” and “Something”, Oxford 2006. K. Wojtyła, Person and Community. Selected Essays. New York 1993.S. KAMPOWSKI Mon 16.30-18.15