God and the Caducity of Being: Jean-Luc Marion and Edith Stein on Thinking God :: Philosophical Philosophy God Papers

God and the Caducity of universe Jean-Luc Marion and Edith Stein on Thinking God filch Jean-Luc Marion claims that God essential no perennial be thought of in terms of the traditional metaphysical category of Being, for that degrades God to an all as well human concept which he calls Dieu. God must be conceived extracurricular of the ontological difference and outside of the question of Being itself. Marion urges us to deliberate of God as love. We wish to challenge Marions claim of the demand to move au-del de ltre by arguing that Marion presents a real peculiar(a) understanding of Being he interprets the Being of God as movement sui. The thought of Edith Stein will be employed in do to bring out a fuller sense of the metaphysical fancy of the Being of God. Stein offers us a rich backdrop against which we foot interpret to a greater extent traditional readings of God as Being, thereby contest Marions claim of the caducity of Being. Traditionally, metaphysics was viewed as consisting of three distinct but cogitate components cosmology, ontology and theology. Cosmology dealt with the being of the natural world conceived as a universe whereas ontology dealt with the being of the particular thing in the cosmos qua its own being. divinity was the investigation of the being of God naturaliter, that is, without exclusively appealing to the truths of Revelation. In his skilled work, God Without Being, Jean-Luc Marion launches a profound challenge to the tradition of metaphysics in general, and more specifically, to the related field of metaphysical theology. Marion claims that God must no longer be thought of in terms of the traditional category Being, for that reduces God to an all too human concept which he calls Dieu. In a sense, a violence is done to God and our understanding of God, for we gravely delimit that which by nature is indeterminable. Drawing upon an Heideggerian-inspired notion of the phenomenological Destruktion, Marion maintains th at God must be thought outside the ontological difference and outside the very question of Being itself. In so doing, we free ourselves from an idolatry wherein we reduce God to our own all too narrow conceptual schemes. Marion urges us to think God in light of St. Johns authorization that God is love (1 Jn 4,8). He believes that love has not been thought with in the metaphysical tradition. Thinking love through will place the philosopher to a more accurate understanding of God as illimitable giver/gift.