Reason and Spirit in the Thought of Edmund Husserl, St. Thomas Aquinas, and A.-T. Tymieniecka: Some Complementarities and Supplementations
Thomas Ryba
Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment 2011 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9612-8_8 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Pure reason Surrounding world Phenomenological method Transcendental phenomenology Discursive form |
| Key points | Argues that the formulations of Husserl, Aquinas, and Tymieniecka each offer partial insights into the relationship between Reason and Spirit, and that a synthesis of these views could expand both notions and avoid the pitfalls of Scientism. |
Abstract
Edmund Husserl, Thomas Aquinas, and A.-T. Tymieniecka each have proposed distinctive formulations of the relations between Reason and Spirit. In this piece, Thomas Ryba reviews and explains the most salient features of each formulation, describing how the features of each thinker’s formulation oppose, complement, or overlap one another. He concludes by suggesting in what direction each formulation may contribute to a more adequate synthesis than any one taken singly, a synthesis which expands the respective notions of Reason and Spirit, a synthesis which can avoid both the trap of Scientism as well as the very crisis between Reason and Spirit caused by Scientism.