Dialogue between agnosticism and the universe of faiths: the case of empathy

Abstract

The article discusses the possibility of dialogue between two worldviews considered as antithetical and mutually exclusive, but that can be seen as separate and complementary: Agnosticism and religion. Therefore, it introduces the concept of empathy, a condition considered necessary for dialogue between subjectivities that want to relate and understood as intellectual and emotional competence to understand others and their experience, regardless the fact that I really cannot relive an experience experienced by another person. The empathic dialogue, whose meaning and history we try to draw from the conceptual analysis and its contextualization within the Humanities, also seems to be the condition of possibility for the construction of a complex meta-perspective, able to overcome arguably an alleged antithesis between religion and agnosticism, which must be dialectically overcome for the sake of survival of the actors dialogue.