Gift and the Unity of Being. Antonio López M.

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Название Gift and the Unity of Being
Автор произведения Antonio López M.
Жанр Религия: прочее
Серия Veritas
Издательство Религия: прочее
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isbn 9781630870416



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to tend towards. The originary experience of time, instead, requires an analogical concept of being as gift.91

      The mystery of death could emerge here as an ultimate objection to time as the presence of the gift that, enriched by its past, awaits fulfillment. But to grant this objection would mean identifying the mystery of death with biological death—thus losing sight of what death reveals of the nature of gift as indicated above—and, more importantly, denying that the continual coming from another, as witnessed by originary experience, presupposes the creative call to be that is capable of begetting where before there was “nothing.” In our account, by contrast, the future is opened up by death in a far more radical way than if finite gift were its own origin or confined within a self-enclosed historical horizon. Since the present is a gift, the fulfillment of the promise is not a necessary, mechanical payment of something that is due. It is, instead, a gratuitous and overabundant gift that surpasses the exuberance even of the surprising origin of finite existence.