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Full Idea
An important development in the formation of the modern worldview was the emergence of Protestantism, that reconfigured the self by privileging the inner states of the soul. Salvation concerns inner feelings, thoughts and desires, which can be genuine.
Gist of Idea
Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul
Source
Kevin Aho (Existentialism: an introduction [2014], 1 'Emergence')
Book Ref
Aho,Kevin: 'Existentialism: an introduction' [Polity 2014], p.6
A Reaction
[bit compressed] He is preparing the historical background for the existentialist concept of authenticity. We can link this Protestant idea with Descartes's Cogito, which grounds knowledge in the inner self.
| 20734 | Anxiety, nausea, guilt and absurdity shake us up, revealing our freedom and limits [Aho] |
| 20733 | Our 'existence' is how we create ourselves, unconstrained by any prior 'essence' [Aho] |
| 20736 | Science has to abstract out the subjective attributes of things, focusing on what is objective [Aho] |
| 20738 | Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial [Aho] |
| 20737 | Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul [Aho] |
| 20744 | Phenomenologists say all experience is about something and is directed [Aho] |
| 20753 | The self is constituted by its choices made within a social context [Aho] |
| 20766 | Four Noble Truths: life is suffering, caused by attachment, it is avoidable, there is a path [Aho] |