Formulation of the claim
Material reductionism fails to explain the human being when it separates him from transcendence, because this separation leads to a materialist or absurdist conception that does not do justice to the complexity of human experience.
Explanation
This atom links criticism of material reductionism to the dimension of transcendence as an element that cannot be removed from understanding the human being. The point is not merely to reject material explanation, but to indicate that confining the human being to matter alone cuts him off from what exceeds it and distorts the meaning of his existence.
Its place in the book’s argument
This idea appears within a broader critical trajectory that shows that a reading which reduces the human being to his material dimension leads to incomplete results. It supports the argument that understanding the human being requires acknowledging what goes beyond a purely material explanation, whether in religion or in the broader existential experience.
What the atom does not say
This atom does not offer a comprehensive philosophical definition of transcendence, nor does it elaborate on alternatives to material explanation or the limits of each. Nor does it address the issue at a lengthy theoretical level; it merely highlights the result to which reductionism leads.
Brief evidence
If the reading we adopt or endorse confines him exclusively to transcendence, it does not cut the human being off from him. . Track within this transcendence the paths of the historical, sensory reality that is embodied in it in various ways. As in the Torah, entirely, and the historical, the apparent
Related links
- transcendence
- Critique of Islamic Reason
- Critique of reason