Abstract

VILLORA SANCHEZ, Carmen. Reflections around the religion how to know of salvation from the thought of María Zambrano. Sophia [online]. 2018, n.24, pp.87-107. ISSN 1390-8626.  https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n24.2018.02.

This article issues from a doctoral thesis on Maria Zambrano’s religious thought. Although it arises from that research, it doesn’t try to show thoroughtly the lines of work or the conclusions developed in it. It is about presenting the central thematic nucleus of religious thought of Zambrano. Enriching with texts of her writings the convictions exposed. The methodology followed consists of the presentation of the key concepts of the religious thought of María Zambrano. It starts from the criticism to rationalism, to advance exposing the philosophical proposal of Zambrano, the poetic reason. A thinking that has to deal with life, a knowledge of experience that initiates the opening of the person and leads to the sacred. Below is the central aspect of Zambian religious thought, the original feeling. From the origin of feeling and thinking the person receives the revelation of himself. Discovering two central aspects of the human being: the vocation to unification, interiority and the call to the relationship with the Other and with others, otherness. Lastly, it turns to life to transform it and to manifest the new person capable of piety, fraternity and mercy. In the conclusions the author’s contribution to the criticism of rationalism is valued and the methodological proposal of the philosopher is advanced, for every human being, religion how to know salvation.

Keywords : Knowledge of experience; poetic reason; native feel; Piety; Mercy; Forgiveness; Fraternity.

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