Modern Thinking

by Syamsul Maarif

There seems to be a characteristic of modern man that he had any statement to claim a hardship exists. So he answered - ex cathedra - questions that the rise time, from the constitution of his own ego. It is not so much the often lamented lack of a real life middle of a real general opinion of modern civilization, to the explanation of this behavior would be sufficient is much more to the modern man secretly totally sure that in all of its own existence Trichkräfte his own time are effective. It seems to him a mere matter of intense attention, which he directed at himself, and believes he has all the mysteries of his time and can cope with - if it takes a fair man - also to be able to pronounce. By the modern thinkers on the effective attitude in him giving evidence, he believes, that in itself all the time streams flow together.

Such an opinion seems outrageous and highly vulnerable. But even Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were their subject. Walther Rathenau has such a wonderful visual image is found: "There is a kind of harmony between the prästabilierter unconsciously shaping dreams of time and individual work of the beholder ... Mechanically considered, we are best to their eyes to how the hand of the from the leaf plays: the eye is a stroke ahead, but both keep step and follow the composition of a third party. " Ernst Barlach and wrote a letter in the sentence: "Everything in life happens subconsciously, even if their subsequent realization of consistency."

Yes, there seems a tacit condition of modern thought to be that through a detailed examination of the constitutive elements of one's mind something like a general statement on the historical life and culture of the present is reached. If, however, then be true that everything we think, in a determinable relation to all this is what is thought of today, so should this "tacit assumption" is also in a sort of scientific methodology can be found again. And this is in fact so.

Both in philosophy as in history, in theology as in philosophy of culture has now developed a method, which presupposes the possibility that thinking person with her to be able to identify the object. This method is still nameless provisionally, and only the history of art, which sources most directly and directly experienced, it may be within their discipline to find a name: the "research", the methodological starting point of the new Viennese school, especially in the Vienna Ordinarius Art History, Hans Sedlmayr, their representative has been groundbreaking. In fact, however, the same method all weitwirkenden underlying thinking of today. She has lived in the theology of Karl Barth, in the philosophy of Heidegger, their representatives. It is cum grano salis in the assertion that the historical knowledge or not abiding image of the historic or present different source, but the best by an intellectual Be Right to be treated with the subject could be drawn. So Sedlmayr claimed in his book on the Roman Baroque architect Borromini, that it is through his identification with his subject-matter approach not only succeeded in the artistic and intellectual world of his heroes in the mentally-for the representation of objective reality and to bring it under this True knowledge not only from wrong clearly and critically exactly have between them, but that he himself drawing architectural plans have evolved, which he later architectural drawings of those newly confirmed Borromini place.

Karl Barth is in his commentary on Romans by a similar method to almost theological territory ahead, as he believes and confesses that his interpretation of Romans, not only the spirit of St. Paul to that effect, but it almost continued sit down, so that its almost Paulus cognition Paul being a mean. This outrageous claim that the new home to be Protestant, comes as a basic condition of the theological belief in the effectiveness of continuous disclosure to help with the "strict Christianity" today is quite familiar. To write in a certain operating gear of the time standing man like Max Huber, the Zurich Professor of International Law and former President of the Court of Arbitration, The Hague: "It belongs to the certainty of faith, the revelation that everything the man says, what God's affairs that is necessary and that from the totality of the insights given to him as the believer, through the Holy Spirit led response to each question, find the location and any time he makes any.

Also a consideration of Heidegger's Denkvoraussetzungen leads to similar results. The origin of Heidegger (existential) philosophy can be seen as nothing more than an intense listening to itself be described, to which he made his fundamental experience that is being demonstrated by the fear of nothingness. Despite its historic derived from Kierkegaard's thinking is Heidegger's philosophy so much "philosophy of experience" and also the reader, so much the same basic experience that people who experience this reason not to have made himself, not at all understandable, because they otherwise necessarily unclear. In Heidegger's philosophy overhears their own thinking, I being one's own ego. The method is known to us, it is based on the identification of one's own thinking I am being with one's own ego.

With the insight, however, that Heidegger's statements must be clear for all those outside his own initial experience is fundamental, we touch a new extraordinary problem of our modern culture: that of spiritual "formation of champagne." Indeed, it is always Gleichgestimmtheit in the constitution provided for the reader, so that those in the first enthusiasm can ignite that an unconditional 'yes' Tell marks. The statement accompanying any pedagogical moment is then only in the excitement of that feeling of happiness liable, opinions expressed in conscious clarity to see, as a latent concern below the level of our conscious mind has always been beaten. The perfect understanding with the groups now believe gruff face (like the controversial opinions now abstract painting, Existentialphilosophie strict theology, democracy or Beveridge plan called) is in the method of modern thought justified. Already in the preface to the most disturbing book of the 20th Century, in Spengler "Decline of the Occident" is the sentence: "This book is aimed solely to readers what the word sounds and images as well nachzuerleben understand."