DESIRE AND RELIGION

Authors

  • Ignace Verhack Catholic University of Leuven

Keywords:

Desire, Religion, Time, Being, Modernity, Ontological reduction, Thrownness, Joy

Abstract

In this paper, I wish to show that there is a blind spot in Heidegger's treatment, in Being and Time, concerning the will and the movement of Dasein, and that it blocks the way to an ontology of desire and, hence, to a philosophical openness to religion.

Author Biography

Ignace Verhack, Catholic University of Leuven

Ignace Verhack is Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion in the International Program of the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

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Published

1997-09-30

How to Cite

Verhack, I. (1997). DESIRE AND RELIGION. Journal of Dharma, 22(3), 275–293. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/jd/article/view/1125

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 3 (1997): Journal of Dharma

Section

Articles