Open AccessEl paradigma bio-teo-político de la autarquía y la paradoja del Dios viviente
Author(s) -
Martín Grassi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cuestiones teológicas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2389-9980
pISSN - 0120-131X
DOI - 10.18566/cueteo.v48n109.a04
Subject(s) - intellect , philosophy , order (exchange) , reflexivity , politics , political theology , face (sociological concept) , theology , epistemology , sociology , political science , social science , law , linguistics , finance , economics
In the Western tradition, life has been defined within the idea of reflexivity and unity. These two features of life are intertwined in what I call the Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm of autarchy, in which living beings are defined primarily as self-sufficient entities. The perfect living being, thus, will be the most autarchic, one that can achieve perfect unity within its own self- referred dynamics. This perfect living being is God, and Western theology (both Greek and Christian) conceptualized God as “thought of thought”, for only the intellect can achieve a pure reflexive unity. However, Plotinus and Jean-Paul Sartre (two very different philosophers, coming from very different traditions and in very different contexts) showed the difficulties of such a definition of God. This paper aims at problematizing the Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm of autarchy by showing its inconsistency when reaching the idea of a perfect living being. In doing so, a need to rethink life and God is fostered, a need that Christian Theology in particular should face in order to build a theology of a Trinitarian living God.