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Sophia, Vol. 44, No. 2, October 2005. Copyright 9 2005 Ashgate Publishing Limited. BEING GRATEFUL FOR BEING: BEING, REVERENCE AND FINITUDE DAMON A. YOUNG Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia [email protected] Atheists are rarely associated with holiness, yet they can have deeply spiritual experiences. Once such experience o f the author exemplified 'the holy'as defined by Otto. However, the subjectivism of Otto ~ Kan- tianism undermines Otto's otherwise fruitful approach. While the work of Hegel overcomes this, it is too rationalistic to account for mortal life. Seeking to avoid these shortcomings, this paper places 'holiness 'within a self-differentiating ontological unity, the Heideggerian fourfoM'. This unity can only be experienced by confronting groundless finite mortality, and the resulting existential disposition is characterized as "reverence'. Reverence is gratitude for mortal existence, and existence itself Moreo- ver, it is as much political as it is ontological, atheistic as it is theistic. As in the evening's buoyant breeze there lightly sails the jasmine's stifling and seductive scent, so does the fragrance of sweet holiness come winging by. 1 The mountain is red. The sea is green. The sky is yellow. The earth is blue. Between a bird and a leaf sits death. 2 1. Introduction: Trains, Malls and the Kantian Sacred In Melbourne, Australia, there is an underground train station called 'Mel- bourne Central'. It was once 'Museum Station', named for the nearby library and museum building, but it now has the same label as a shopping mall. A sterile warren of characterless tiles, vending machines and standard blue paint, Melbourne Central is an unlikely place to encounter the sacred. Nonetheless, some years ago I felt the presence of the holy in this very station. Standing on the fluorescent-lit platform as an unseen train approached, I felt a light breeze on my face and fingertips. Atter a few moments of silence there was a low rumble, and then the shaking of the track through my feet and stomach. Rather than feeling a train approaching, I felt a tremendous power; something fearful yet magnificent, humbling yet exhilarating. This

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