PHI 510 The Philosophical Question of Christ
In this course, the figure of Christ is raised in its phenomenological presence. What can reason as reason understand in approaching the figure of Christ and how has this unique figure been approached historically by such thinkers as St. Anselm, St. Thomas, Nietzsche, Kant, Hegel, Scheler, Jaspers, and Santayana. Such questions as temporality, history vs. historicism, anthropology, ethical action, the Anselmian/Thomistic notion of fittingness/perfection and the relationship between the universal and the particular, are addressed. The question whether Christian philosophy is a contradiction in terms, or a genuine possibility, forms the underlying interrogative basis of the course.