Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Erfahrung, religiöse; Aufklärung, Kant, Otto, Eliade

Kurzinhalt: Natürlich, übernatürlich; Kant: natürliche Religion; Eliade, Otto: das Irrationale

Textausschnitt: () In our post-Enlightenment period, it is difficult for us to appreciate these primitive attitudes. The extraordinary achievement of Renaissance science ...
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Kant explicitly excluded 'numinous experiences' from such a 'reasonable' religion and morality. Unfortunately, when Rudolf Otto, under the influence of the Kantian tradition, reintroduced 'numinous experiences' as the core or essence of religious experience, he also described such experiences as 'irrational' ...
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Thus Eliade describes supernatural experiences as a symbolic passage from one way of being to other. Just as in creation the cosmos passes from non-being to being, so at birth the embryo passes from the womb of the mother (earth) to life.
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The central issue for Eliade is that, for archaic and primitive people, there are two modes of existing: the profane and the sacred. What myths and rituals mean for these people is a passage or transformation from a lower way of being to a new higher mode of being, from the natural to supernatural mode, from the secular to sacred.