Echoes of transcendence in a secular age
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This paper analyses transcendence in the secular age. In its origins, secular knowledge based on the model of the natural sciences seemed to have won the battle against religion and myth. This kind of all-knowing knowledge can be translated into physical or mathematical terms. In this scenario, the part of reality that cannot be translated into that language simply disappears. This is the case of transcendence understood as the basis of knowledge of the other-wordly (religion, myth, etc.). Modernity is identified with immanence, there is nothing beyond its limits. Recently, however, transcendence has returned to the public debate. It has abandoned its last religious form and adopted other forms such as the moral and the semiotic. This transformation in transcendence makes possible the construction of a field of analysis in which religions and cultures can recognize difference and put themselves in the place of others. In this transcendence there is no longer God alone, only the possibility of exploring and shaping different ways of being in the world.
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