On 05 Jul 2011, at 01:43, B Soroud wrote:
but to say something positive... I like your formulation of religion
as argument by authority.
Religion = argument by authority.
Now there are two forms of spirituality as barely distinguished from
religion: theoretical spirituality and existential spirituality.
Theoretical spirituality as indemonstrable cosmology/metaphysics/
teleology generally grounded in the argument by authority on the one
hand, or by a rationalist mode of procedure on the other.
There can be existential spirituality without the inferences,
postulates, and explanations of the theoretical assertions grounded
in revelation or argument by authority..... and perhaps argument by
persuasiveness.... i.e. the rhetoric of logos, pathos, and
ethos....... this can be a subtle and sublimated form of argument by
authority.
It ios never the case in science (well understood). It is always like
"do you see what I see?" + "do you guess what I guess"? Science is
only question. The idea that science can provide an answer in
metaphysics, appears only by science abandon of metaphysics and
theology. Science start from doubts and leads only to more doubts.
I would write fake-religion = fake science = argument of authority =
bandits at work.
The opposition between science and religion is the big delusion, which
betrays what science modestly is, and what religion modestly is.
Bruno
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