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Specific points from the discussion with Jiirgen Jurgen Habermas, The University of Chicago, 7-8 October 1988

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3. Habermas also clarified the relation between philosophy and the lifeworld by arguing that philosophy mediates between the special sciences and the life world. His question, however, was whether there is anything corresponding to this that can be said for theology. On his analysis, there appear to be two main approaches to an affirmative answer to this question. On the one hand, there is an approach that looks to a philosophy both acceptable in a postmetaphysical context and able to provide cosmological, theological, and ontological, as well as anthropological, justification for religious claims. On the other hand, there is a kind of left-wing Hegelian aproach approach that is either out-and-out utopianism or, in order to avoid that, offers more modest encouragement for rational thought and action.

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