El juez y el testigo como figuras de la subjetividad. Aportes para el diálogo entre ciencia y religión

Abstract

 In this present work we look forward to distinguish science from religion, in order to keep their respetive autonomies so as to make possible a mutual understanding. For that end, we will take as a starting point the figure of judge and that of witness that adopts subjectivity towards the scientific phenomena and the religious phenomena, respectively. In the latter, the subject fi nds himself overwhelmed by the phenomenological excedence of the divine, being capable only of giving testimony of this surplus in a non-predicative language. In the former, the subject is in a position of supremacy towards the scientific object, as far as it appears in the mesure that it is submitted to the conditions of possibility of predicative-explicative language. However, is necessary to join together dialectically both figures to find human existence in its concrete sens. Nevertheless, we will presume a primacy of each figure over the other taking into account the significance of history in each case: whereas history of science can be considered as a history of verification, religious history is always a history of redemption. In this sense, we will conclude, the intention that movilize science is that the witness turns judge, whereas the goal of religion is that the jugde turns –finally– in witness.