The Religious Thought of F. Savater
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.39.2017.13794Keywords:
laicism, citizenship, belief, church, education, stateAbstract
The present work presents Fernando Savater’s thinking on religious matters. Savater is an author who defines himself as credulous more than as a believer, faced with the surprises of the past or of what may come. He rejects both the imposition of an absolute transcendent truth and the sceptical or relativistic positions. For him, the origin of belief is desire: fear of dying and the desire for immortality. His notion of laicism involves the conception of a separation between Church and State, but also the absence of any prepolitical foundation that determines our citizenship. Thus, the need to explain what laity is in a subject such as Education for Citizenship.Downloads
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2017-06-23
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Grijalba Uche, M. (2017). The Religious Thought of F. Savater. ENDOXA, (39), 347–370. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.39.2017.13794
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