Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 93 No. 3, 2023.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.93.3.6
Two Approaches to the Problem of Crisis – Ethical and Metaphysical Implications
Daniel Miščin
orcid.org/0000-0003-0422-3124
; Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the article, the author presents and analyses two models of approaching crisis. The classical model, which sees crisis as a difficult yet passing state, can be associated with two important figures of the Western culture: Abraham from the Old Testament and Euripides’s Agamemnon. The analysis of the sacrifice of Isaac and Iphigenia shows significant similarities, and their fundamental characteristic is that Abraham’s and Agamemnon’s decisions indirectly resolve and conclude the crisis. On the other hand, the analysis of the modern understanding of crisis opens up a completely different possibility: the understanding of crisis as an expression of the ontological structure of existence. The symbolic representative of such an understanding of crisis is the figure on Edward Munch’s painting The Scream. Ultimately, the author demonstrates that the ontological understanding of crisis makes it, to a certain extent, existential.
Keywords
crisis; Abraham; Agamemnon; Heidegger; Kierkegaard; Huizinga
Hrčak ID:
311233
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Publication date:
12.12.2023.
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