Finitude and the sacred: rational experience of the person

Abstract

Why should religion be entirely a matter of philosophy? We will argue, on Derrida, that this is so by virtue of another mode of appearance of truth than that of the physical-natural sciences. Thus the symbol, in so far, as it refers to the problem of the system of philosophy, carries with it the whole of the human sphere. However, this is only possible if such a system is not indebted to those doctrines where the existent derives from a logical possibility originating in God. The question remains, however, how can it be that, having made such a critical exercise, the idea of man as vestigium Dei subsists in the constitution of such valuable institutions as the Constitutions?