sacrificium intellectus
Sacrificium intellectus literally (from Latin ) means sacrifice of the mind . In general, it means that you put your own thinking back under a claim to power. This is not limited to religious dogmas. Otto von Bismarck used sacrificium intellectus, for example, in connection with the submission to the will of Wilhelm II : “ A negative vote would displease the emperor. My colleagues had a sacrificium intellectus to the emperor, my deputy and adlatus had committed a dishonesty towards me. "
In theology , the term has a long prehistory in the monastic-ascetic tradition (especially Ignatius von Loyola ), but only arose around the First Vatican Council (1869/70) and was introduced by Mathias Joseph Scheeben , Th. Frommann, J Friedrich u. a. spread. What is meant is that submission to the authority of the Magisterium as the only legitimate interpreter of the good of faith is considered a meritorious act of humility.
The term received philosophical weight primarily through Max Weber's lecture Science as a Profession (1919) and Max Scheler’s reply , Vom Ewigen im Menschen . Following Karl Barth , Dietrich Bonhoeffer took a positive view of the sacrificium intellectus .
literature
- Matthias Laarmann: Sacrificium intellectus. In: Joachim Ritter , Karlfried founder , Gottfried Gabriel (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of philosophy . Volume 8: R - Sc. Schwabe, Basel 1992, ISBN 3-7965-0699-2 , Sp. 1113-1117 (there detailed conceptual historical information on the expression sacrificium intellectus ).
- Konrad Fuchs , Heribert Raab: History Dictionary (= dtv 3364). 12th edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-03364-9 , p. 726.
- Christian Bauer: Sacrificium Intellectus. The victim of the mind in the art of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Botho Strauss and Anselm Kiefer. Fink, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4596-4 (also: Wuppertal, University, dissertation).