Homozentrismus

Japanese: Homozentrismus
Homozentrismus

…All of this was the natural outcome of the work of modern Western philosophy since the 17th century. It signified the victory of the humanism of modern Western democratic civil society, that is, the secular “homozentrismus,” over the “theozentrismus” of the feudal, class-based society of medieval Europe. The liberation of humans from God meant that they became independent and free, but at the same time, it meant that humans would gradually lose their awareness of their finite existence and become full of self-confidence and even arrogant as subjects of earthly power. …

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Japanese:

…これらすべてのことは,17世紀以来の近代西欧哲学の営みがおのずから招いた結果であった。それは,中世西欧の身分制的封建社会における〈神中心主義思想Theozentrismus〉に対する近代西欧の民主主義的市民社会におけるヒューマニズム,すなわち世俗的な〈人間中心主義思想Homozentrismus〉の勝利を意味したのであった。 神からの人間の解放は,人間が自立し自由となることを意味したのであるが,しかしそれは同時に,人間が有限な存在であることの自覚をしだいに喪失して,地上的な力の主体として自信にあふれ,傲慢ともなることを意味したのである。…

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