THE THIRD CONFERENCE MONDIALE DES INSTITUTIONS UNIVERSITAIRES
CATHOLIQUES DE PHILOSOPHIE (COMIUCAP) WORLD CONGRESS
MANILA, PHILIPPINES
11-13 SEPTEMBER 2008
PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIONS AND TRANSCENDENCE
Languages of the Congress : English, French, Spanish
Scientific Committee:
Philippe Capelle (Paris), Richard Cobb-Stevens (Boston), Nestor Corona (Buenos Aires), Vicente Duran (Bogota), Leovino Garcia (Manila), Georges N’Dumba (Kinshasa), Wadislas Zuziak (Cracovia)
Rationale of the Congress:
The notion of transcendence belongs to the philosophical and religious traditions. As such, it is placed within a complex of meanings that concerns not only the naming, philosophical or theological, of God and the divine, but also the existence, the status of finitude and history, prayer and the phenomenon of being. It may be the opportune moment to put into question the contents linked to this notion which are mobilized in very diverse, even divergent theoretical construction and religious traditions. What are the anthropologies, metaphysics that support its use? What links are to be interpreted or established between its concept, its usage and the ethical-political system? What space is given to it by the domains of the sciences and aesthetics in the contemporary world?
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