Ricerc@Sapienza

An apparently paradoxical tendency in contemporary Philosophy of Religion consists in no longer seeking transcendence starting with invisible and immaterial elements, such as the soul, the spirit, or God known to reason. Instead a bridge between philosophy and theology has been singled out in the body. ”ut how can one reach an idea of transcendence starting from the body? In these short reflections, I will try to show how finitude and immanence are the phenomenological meaning of the body. Consciousness itself is finite because it is embodied. So it is not possible to transcend the body.

Short analysis about some key concepts of Hans Jonas's notino of God and transcendence.

In the natural attitude, and in the ordinary language, religion is strictly bound to transcendence.
In this paper I ask whether the concept of “transcendence” is legitimate in the phenomenological
dimension, which is opened by the methodological operation of reduction
to the immanence of transcendental consciousness. By examining how “transcendence”
gains increasingly importance in Husserl’s thought, the necessity emerges to distinguish
three levels of it: intentional (or horizontal) transcendence, intersubjective transcendence