This study is critique of deconstructive epistemology in Jaycees Deride, extreme post-modernist on the perspective of Calvin's theological epistemology.
Deconstructionism in Deride has threatened the Christian Religion with great strength. The reason...
This study is critique of deconstructive epistemology in Jaycees Deride, extreme post-modernist on the perspective of Calvin's theological epistemology.
Deconstructionism in Deride has threatened the Christian Religion with great strength. The reason is that deconstructionism came from resist against Western metaphysics and is a sort of defiance of Christian Religion as a Book. Deconstruction doesn't simply mean the end of the Reason, the center frame of modernism, and the Death of God. It is rather a charge of the violence that Reason, Epistemic Subject, has and repulsion for the pursuit of the absolute truth of the Christian Religion. Wan that sense, his thought seems to be easily absorbed and present a brand new vision to intellectuals
The essence of Deconstructionism in Deride consists in epistemology. He coped with concept of post-modernism pioneers with jumping the horizon of ontological cognition. So to speak, He found motives of deconstruction in the subject of Heist that Headgear's metaphysics had dealt with, Nietzsche's style, and Husserl's phenomenology, however he have developed a new epistemological point of view by differentiating them.
By demarcation between Book and Text, he announced the end of the Book. Simultaneously, he claimed that the only thing left is the Text. His difficult passage, "nothing outside the text (il n'y a pas de horstexte.)" means epochs of objective and fixed pursuit of meaning through abstruseness, a main characteristic of Text. This epistemological structure, in conclusion, shows that his view of understanding has extreme relativity and obscurity.
Derides epistemology could be judged as follows. First, he addressed the limitation of finite Human Reason. Second, he seized the violence that the pursuit of objective meanings and centralized central concept have. Thirdly, active openness to otherwise through limits of epistemic subject was supposed. However he contributed like above, his epistemology had several problems as below. First, his thought was exposed to the possibility of extreme principal pluralism. Wan the second place, it is possible that the recognition of decentralized concept may commit violence. Lastly, his epistemology was mere Dionysian since it didn't present a constructive alternative plan.
Deride didn't criticize the Christian Religion in direct but deconstructed the core of the Christian Religion. That's why the faith in Christian Religion is a matter of recognition. He had challenged the Christian Religion seriously as below. First, he regarded that Christian Religion is confined to the category of metaphysics onto-theological recognition. Thus it is a typical model of Western metaphysics, without stepping' out of ontology. Second, it is recognition of arrogance and self-complacence confined to speculative frame. He hypercriticized as there have been only violence.
What answer will the Christian Religion give to Derides challenge? Wan Calvin's theological epistemology, some cornerstones of responding to Derides challenge could be found as below. His theological cpistemology, first, is not a recognition limited to ontological metaphysics but recognition of depending on and being relates with the Absolute Other, God. Second, theological recognition is not wandering in limitation of speculativeness. The aim of theological recognition is the 'phronesis' as sanctification. In this sense, it is clear that Calvin's theological epistemology proved that Christian Religion did not stayed at western metaphysics and already has a solution of the threat of violence.
Moreover, in spite of the contribution of Derides epistemology, Christian Religion could not accept his thought. The reasons are as below. First, it is extrinsically that he criticizes Christian Religion or
Western metaphysics. His critique on being and psycho-sphere and is obscure. Simultaneously, he thought the cause of violence as the structure and centralizes concept. However, the violence doesn't exist in the visible structure and the pursuit of the centralizes concept. It is in the human being's natures sin.
Secondly, his active openness on Otherwise resulted from the pursuit in limitations. Limitation cannot recognize Infinity. It is impossible to pursue infinity in limitation. Thus it is a correct way to approach limitation from infinity, not an opposite way of opening from limitation to infinity. In this sense, his Otherwise was originally wrong in directionality.
In conclusion, Deconstructionism in Deride had pointed out arrogance and self-complacence of Western metaphysics and Christian Religion superficially. Wt could not be a sufficient and intrinsically critique on Christian Religion. Calvin' theology already gave us the answer to Deride.