Download e-book for kindle: The Tragedy of Almightiness: Revaluing Ethical Life by Sybe Schaap

The Tragedy of Almightiness encircles the subject matter of human longing for omnipotence, as expressed in faith and diverse ideologies. The critical query revolves round the topic of what--in pursuing such an severe strength of the will--man seeks to accomplish. whereas exploring the query, a thought-provoking hyperlink is made among faith and atheism; among the Biblical eager for God's promise and the Marxist attraction for guy to achieve that very same promise. Omnipotence needs to vouch for the enjoyable of the promise, for justice and for man's dream of redemption.

However that's not the place it ends. The eager for salvation seems to have a deadly opposite aspect to it since it encourages a turning clear of the particular international and the all-pervading evil. Omnipotence additionally allows the avenging of such evil. historical past has proven what this type of craving may end up in. The e-book demonstrates how modernity interprets Biblical longings into ideologically justified revengefulness. the outline of this method results in a plea for renewed moral function in existence. it's a problem that still extends to faith. therefore the explanation that it is vital to go away from the belief of omnipotence.

"This ebook convincingly indicates how threatening the religion in and pursuit of omnipotence is. Obsession with energy threatens the ethical constitution of society and the constitutional nation. the writer, as a thinker, expresses a subject matter that politicians also needs to take realize of. strength continues to be a perilous political temptation."
--Ankie Broekers-Knol, Chair of the Dutch Senate

"This is a demanding publication a couple of subject from which the previous communist international has seriously suffered: omnipotence. the writer supplies a penetrating research of the concept that of omnipotence. In it he contains his own event with communism. The ebook features a dazzling connection among the theological and philosophical roots of the idea that of omnipotence. It clarifies how those rules have been the foundation for an abhorrent political translation. This ebook may be read."
--Ladislav Hejdánek, Professor of Philosophy, Charles college, Prague

Sybe Schaap (Lemmer, The Netherlands, 1946) received his doctorate in philosophy from the loose college of Amsterdam, and then he lectured on the Charles collage in Prague. Schaap is lively all over the world as a water administration professional, maintaining a chair in water administration at Delft college of expertise. he's a member of the Dutch Senate for the Dutch liberal get together, VVD. Schaap has written 5 books on philosophy, with translations into German, Russian and Ukrainian.