Le 05-janv.-06, à 00:19, Russell Standish a écrit :
Also, I think "God" is just a chapter in theology,
again this seems to be using theology in a more expansive meaning than
it usually is. Theology to me is the study of belief in God, although
I note that the Oxford concise dictionary defines it thusly:
"a study of or system of religion; rational analysis of a religious
faith"
Yes it is exactly what I mean by theology: rational study of faith, and
I recall that any practice of comp requires some sort of faith.
Indeed, however most people would not regard Pythagoranism, Platonism
et al as a topic of theology. If you insist on using the term, you
will be condemned to defining the word theology so as to include
Pythagoranism etc as part of its domain of study in every paper your
write.
Actually neoplatonist like Plotinus or Proclus does that. Not only
Pythagoranism has been conceived in a religious form, but like taoism
in China, it has evolved into religious practice accompagnied by many
form of superstition. Pyhtagoranism has even evloved into sectarian
systems.
Psychology, on the other hand seems unproblematical, as psychology
normally covers belief as part of its remit.
But psychologist does not tackle the (certainly problematical) notion
of truth, still less of unprovable truth ... It remains neutral, where
comp *cannot* be.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
