Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 84 No. 2, 2014.
Original scientific paper
The Riddle of an Upcoming Event. Between Faith and Techno-Science (Heidegger-Deleuze)
Žarko Paić
; Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper explores a problem of triumph of modern techno-science in the creation of artificial intelligence and artificial life in relation to contemporary philosophy. The author shows how worldview dispute between »mind« and »faith« is confronted with the question of human existence in the form of cybernetic system of chaos and control and therein the dispute reveals the inadequacy of both sides in relation to the contemporary thought. In an extensive analysis of the thought of two paradigmatic philosophers concerning the question of the fate of metaphysics today, Heidegger’s and Deleuze, it has been emphasized that the difference between the end of metaphysics in cybernetics and ontology of the differences in the openness of the upcoming event represents one step further towards what is necessary – to other possibilities of other and different history. Against the power of techno-scientific logic of transforming the world in computing, planning and constructing, philosophy and theology have to confront their unexamined sources beyond traditional metaphysics. Technical time enslaves authentic human existence and closes the place of the sacred to an upcoming event. Instead of an obsolete approach of so-called worldview dispute (theism vs. atheism), as an ideological struggle for discursive power of ruling today, it is necessary to create the conditions for convergence in the encounter between »mind« and »faith«, beyond the reduction of philosophy and theology to the level of »positive« sciences of the modern age. The concept of an upcoming event transcends the vulgar actuality of time as well as future under the sign of the technical construction. It is a fundamental question about the meaning of life today in the time that remains in total technicisation of metaphysical set Being-God-World-Human Being.
Keywords
Upcoming event; cybernetics; techno-science; philosophy; theology; Hei- degger; Deleuze
Hrčak ID:
124953
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Publication date:
11.7.2014.
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