The commitment in feeling absolutely safe
dc.contributor.author | Kroesbergen, Hermen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-07T09:17:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | The experience of feeling safe even in the midst of trials and temptations seems to be a central feature of the Christian faith. In this article I will try to solve some possible difficulties in understanding this kind of absolute safety by discussing some problems noted by philosophers in connection with the related statements by Socrates that a good man cannot be harmed, and by Wittgenstein that he sometimes feels absolutely safe, that nothing can injure him whatever happens. First, I will investigate whether there is an invalid prediction implied in this feeling of absolute safety: how can someone know that nothing will hurt him or her? Second, I will examine whether this experience of complete safety is dependent upon impossible requirements, such as to be a good man or an impeccable Christian. Third, I will consider the character of the people who claim absolute safety as portrayed by different philosophers: do these people really need to be so cold and inhumanly detached from the world for them to be able to say that nothing can hurt them? I will argue that if, instead of asking how someone can claim absolute safety, we ask to what someone commits him- or her-self in making this claim, these difficulties disappear. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Science of Religion and Missiology | en_ZA |
dc.description.embargo | 2019-10-01 | |
dc.description.librarian | hj2018 | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://link.springer.com/journal/11153 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Kroesbergen, H. The commitment in feeling absolutely safe. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (2018) 84: 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-018-9680-3. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0020-7047 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8684 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1007/s11153-018-9680-3 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66118 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © Springer Nature B.V. 2018. The original publication is available at http://www.springer.comseries/6102. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Absolute safety | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Peter Winch | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Socrates | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Ludwig Wittgenstein | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Commitment | en_ZA |
dc.title | The commitment in feeling absolutely safe | en_ZA |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_ZA |