On 05 Jul 2011, at 01:53, B Soroud wrote:
Yes! perhaps Reason is the ultimate sublimated form of the argument
by authority.....
You look more and more talking like the Pope. Science is the devil.
I don't follow you here at all. reason is *the* tool against argument
by authority. It is a liberation tool.
and the demonstrable merely regulated to a highly limited and
relatively insubstantial plane.
back to the Sophists! lets throw out the platonic and peripatetic
presuppositions and linguistic forms inherited and embedded in
modern physics and thought!
I told you that physics is not fundamental, once we assume mechanism.
It is the point. When I am in a provocative mood, I like to say that
the physical universe is an invention of the devil to distract us from
the 'real thing". To be sure, physics appears as absolutely solid and
fundamental, but is no more primary. The physical reality appears like
the border of the universal mind (the mind of the universal machine).
Bruno
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:43 PM, B Soroud <[email protected]> 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.
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