Hermeneutics of the Sacred and <i>New Humanism</i> in Mircea Eliade

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  • ミルチャ・エリアーデにおける聖の解釈学と《新しいヒューマニズム》
  • ミルチャ エリアーデ ニ オケル セイ ノ カイシャクガク ト アタラシイ ヒューマニズム

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Here we try to elucidate New Humanism in Mircea Eliade. This concept is considered as the creative hermeneutics, which points a new plane of a humanbeing’s knowledge. Although Eliade doesn’t determine this humanism clearly, he suggests that the phenomenology of religions should be a primary discipline for making it realized. Therefore, we at first take his methodology as the hermeneutics of the sacred ; this may help us understand how such a humanism could be. In this attempt, his concept totality will be our key. <br> In his methodology, we can find a correspondence of the relation between homo religiosus and the sacred things, with the relation between the hermeneute (as the phenomenologist of religions) and religious phenomena. The sacred reveals itself through natural objects in the profane. He explains this revelation as the dialectic of the sacred. It means that a profane object is sacralized through becoming a religious symbol or hierophany. Homo religiosus finds the sacred as a whole, total, larger system (the cosmos), uncovering a camouflage of the profane as a small and meaningless part of the natural world. Only the sacred can bring something meaningful. Correspondently, a hermeneute interprets religious meanings from religious data. A hermeneute as well as homo religiosus represents or reproduces the sacred meaning in its totality, beyond the limitation that everything seems to be just a part of the profane. And such a religious interpretation could make a hermenute participate in a total and meaningful world, as the experiences of the sacred could make homo religiosus participate in the sacred cosmos. <br> And we see that, from the point of view mentioned above, Eliade’s phenomenology of religions would realize his New Humanism partially. Although New Humanism in its totality couldn’t be reached, we can suppose it and can realize it partially in the creative and hermeneutic phenomenology of religions.

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