Ninth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

In recent times there has been an increasing loss of the individual’s strength of judgement to the benefit of an ever-increasing confidence in global feeling. Secularisation has led the concept of reason to be diminished alongside the paradoxical increasing interest in virtues. Religious belief - a pillar in the structure of the self - seems to have to rest more and more on the pretensions of a globalized society, increasingly liquid, neutral, without identity. I will therefore analyse the perspective of a realistic phenomenology, of the foundations of ethics and of the criteria of the spiritual dimension proper to Western culture. I will therefore conclude the essay by opening a debate on the concept of reason, essential to both philosophy and religion, as the perfect junior ally of faith.