The Self-Knowledge and the Phenomenon of Estrangement/Alienation of the Human in Gnosticism
Journal Title: Dialogo - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
In the dawns of the new millennium, in a world of ideas continuously moving, dominated by the super-eminence of producing material goods, in a context of a new postmodern globalising society, which presents a hedonist mercantile pseudo-spirituality and is based on the dimensions of Profit, Eros and Consume, the humanity is confronted with a challenge without precedent, due to the nihilist vision on the world, but also due to the reduction of the human being to the perspective of the economical quality, object or simple merchandise. In the context of these existentialist aspects of the postmodern neo-gnostic man, starting from the phenomenon of self-alienation/ estrangement, the world has come to the point where the human is seen reduced only from the civilizational-materialist perspective of the poverty or of the well-being. In this context, from the generous thematic offered by the title of this year symposium in Constanţa – The Ego – Self and Constientia – The Dialogue between neurosurgery/ neurotheology[1], psychology/psychotherapy[2]and theology, we chose as for our research the theme of estrangement/ alienation of the Self in the perspective of the gnostic literature. This old literature contains the theme of the metaphysical alienation of the soul, a theme that will paradoxically culminate, theoretically and practically, in a system that is entirely hostile to the metaphysics.
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Stelian Manolache
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