Saint Augustine's Giveness: Disappearing and Directionality

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Published: 2018-06-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18566/escr.v26n56.a06

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Schutijser, Dennis. 2018. “Saint Augustine’s Giveness: Disappearing and Directionality”. Escritos 26 (56): 133-49. https://doi.org/10.18566/escr.v26n56.a06.

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Dennis Schutijser
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Abstract

The article reconstructs Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenological reading of Saint Augustine's Confessions in his book Au lieu de soi [In the Self's Place: The Approach of St. Augustine]. Marion presents himself as a philosopher who aims to take philosophy beyond ontology, particularly by means of a phenomenology of giveness. The latter is typified by a triple disappearing: that of the givee (oneself), of the giver (God), and of the gift (Grace). The use of the space metaphor reveals the appearance of two empty spaces linked with a multiple movement. The article concludes with some questions regarding the disappearing of the self and of God in the reading of Confessions.

Keywords:
Saint Augustine, Phenomenology, Giveness, Ego, God

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Author Biography

Dennis Schutijser, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador

Magister en Ciencias Humanisticas (2007) y en Filosofia (2008). Docente de Filosofia en la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador (PUCE), Escuela de filosofia. Ecuador.

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