God Without Metaphysics: Some Thomistic Reflections on Heidegger’s Onto-Theological Critique and the Future of Natural Theology

IF 0.3 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Justin Gable
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The Heideggerian critique of onto-theology has attained a semi-canonical status for continental philosophy of religion. But is the critique itself sound, and does it actually result in a richer philosophical and theological discourse concerning God? In this paper, I argue that Heidegger’s onto-theological critique suffers from serious difficulties. First (section II) I examine the critique, summarizing and condensing the critique in its essentials. I use Westphal’s fourfold criteria as a way of giving it some precision, while presenting it in relative independence from Heidegger’s own account of Being. In section III, I examine the results of non-onto-theological discourse on God post-Heidegger, suggesting, using the examples of John Caputo and Richard Kearney, that Heidegger’s onto-theological critique has not inspired a less problematic religious discourse. In the fourth and final section, I question the legitimacy of the critique itself. While Heidegger’s critique of onto-theology has the seemingly admirable goal of rendering our discourse about God less instrumental and idolatrous, a careful analysis of the criteria themselves reveals that onto-theology either misinterprets natural theological discourse on God or subjects it to impossible requirements.
没有形而上学的上帝:对海德格尔本体论批判与自然神学未来的托马斯式反思
海德格尔对神学的批判在大陆宗教哲学中已经达到了半规范的地位。但是,批判本身是否合理,它是否真的导致了关于上帝的更丰富的哲学和神学话语?本文认为,海德格尔对神学的批判存在着严重的困难。首先(第二节)考察批判,对批判的本质进行总结和浓缩。我用威斯特法尔的四重标准来给它一些精确性,同时相对独立于海德格尔自己对存在的描述。在第三节中,我考察了后海德格尔对上帝的非神学话语的结果,并以约翰·卡普托和理查德·科尔尼的例子表明,海德格尔对神学的批判并没有激发出一种问题较少的宗教话语。在第四部分,也是最后一部分,我质疑批判本身的合法性。虽然海德格尔对神学的批判似乎有一个令人钦佩的目标,那就是让我们关于上帝的话语不那么工具化和偶像崇拜,但对标准本身的仔细分析表明,神学要么误解了关于上帝的自然神学话语,要么将其置于不可能的要求之下。
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