Osservatorio Internazionale Cardinale Van Thuan
Newsletter n.454 del 2013-02-04
S.E. Mons. Giampaolo Crepaldi
Archbishop of Trieste
In concluding his observations about secularisation in the western world the philosopher Karl Löwith wrote: “But if people think each immature spirit was left to its own decisions in the most important things, it is astounding that morality did not degenerate completely”. What comes to the forefront here is that the emancipation of the temporal from the spiritual, the replacement of Christian salvation with progress and religion with science do not end up producing a true autonomy capable of preserving its own level, but bring about a phenomenon of “decadence”. In fact, Löwith considers it miraculous that it proved possible to retain an albeit weak form of morality after this separation.
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