Menarik membaca review tentang religiusitas seorang
Einstein dan konsep tuhan non personalnya.
Hanya koment singkat saja, kalau konsep Einstein
tentang Tuhan tidak kompatible dengan konsepsi dalam
kristen, nampaknya akan demikian pula dengan Islam.
apa benar demikian?
Dan wajar saja kalau banyak yang keberatan dengan
Konsep Tuhan non personal, sebab ibadah dan puja-puji
para believers tak akan ada artinya.
Apa benar demikian?
Lalu, buku "Einstein and Religon" ini akan menjadi
"ancaman" bagi masyarakat NU yang secara dominan
bertuhan pada yang maha personal; dari yang
tradisional sampai liberal.
Sekali lagi apa benar demikian?
Demikian, sngkat saja. Semoga ada yang mau ikutan
diskusi.
Buat Pradhita, saya tunggu sedekah komentar atas
tulisan yang diforwardnya.
Salam,
asep
--- Pradhita al-Rasyid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology by Max
> Jammer, (Princeton: Princeton press, 1999 hdb, pbk
> 2002 ) pages 279 cloth bound $37.50 and paperback
> $16,95
>
> Reviewed by Sarojini Henry
>
> "To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to
> attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of
> the lofty structures of all that there is". These
> are
> the words with which Albert Einstein concluded a
> statement of his philosophy of life made in 1932.
> Einstein's insatiable curiosity about the secrets of
> the world can be traced to his fascination with a
> toy
> compass, which his father gave him to play with when
> he was a child. The effect the compass had on young
> Albert was both prophetic and dramatic. The question
> for Albert was how the little needle, enclosed in a
> box, should have the constant impulse to point to
> the
> north.
>
> Banesh Hoffmann, who calls Einstein a creator and
> rebel, rightly summarizes Einstein's philosophy in
> the
> following words, "The essence of Einstein's
> profundity
> lay in his simplicity and the essence of his science
> lay in his artistry-his phenomenal sense of beauty."
> Einstein had indeed captured the world's imagination
> with his exceptional blend of a profound aesthetic
> sense, an insatiable curiosity about the secrets of
> the universe and a rare ability to grasp mentally
> the
> structure of all there is. What Einstein
> accomplished
> in his life in the scientific field was a truly an
> astonishing achievement for any human being. Apart
> from his scientific ingenuity, his acute sensibility
> to social problems and peace concerns has become
> part
> of the legacy of the world's most renowned
> scientist.
>
> But what was Einstein's attitude to religion? Not
> many
> biographies of Einstein say much about Einstein's
> philosophy of religion although his quest for
> spiritual truth had played a prominent part both in
> his personal life and in his scientific research.
> Often, Einstein's ideas about religion have been
> distorted both by atheists and by religious groups
> eager to claim him as one of their own. In this
> context, this fascinating book, Einstein and
> Religion:
> Physics and Theology, by Max Jammer, the
> distinguished
> Professor of Physics Emeritus and former Rector at
> Bar-Ilan University in Israel, provides us with a
> clear, well-documented and an unbiased picture of
> Einstein's religious sensibilities and his
> philosophy
> of religion.
>
> Max Jammer, like Einstein himself, comes in the long
> line of Jewish scientists, of the nineteenth and
> twentieth centuries, Jacques Loeb in physiology,
> Minkowski in Mathematics, Paul Ehrenfest in the
> quantum theory, Haber in chemistry, Leo Szilard in
> nuclear physics all bearing witness to the
> spectacular
> part that Jewish scholarship had played in the field
> of science, often displaying exemplary courage in
> the
> face of anti-Semitism Thus Max Jammer was not only
> at
> home with the theoretical part of Einstein's physics
> but also shared his cultural background. Further,
> Jammer knew Einstein personally and this
> acquaintance
> enabled him to draw on a wide range of less familiar
> anecdotes in Einstein's life and thought.
>
> The book has three chapters; the first chapter
> examines the role of religion in Einstein's personal
> life and includes some biographical notes. The
> second
> chapter deals with Einstein's philosophy of
> religion,
> both from Einstein's writings and also from the
> interviews that religious leaders had with Einstein.
> The third chapter analyses the effect of Einstein's
> physics on theology, although Einstein himself
> abstained from using the word theology.
>
> The first chapter begins with a discussion of
> Einstein's childhood religious education and the
> religious atmosphere--or its absence--among his
> family
> and friends. It then reconstructs, step by step, the
> development that led young Albert from the religious
> paradise of his youth to the stage when, "through
> the
> reading of popular scientific books", he "reached
> the
> conviction that much of the stories in the bible
> could
> not be true." Such a posture seemed to have
> motivated
> Einstein to find God in the physical world itself,
> from the atomic level to the stellar level; and
> Einstein attests that this road beckoned him like a
> liberation and since then has proved itself
> trustworthy.
>
> Max Jammer goes on to explain how Einstein's
> religious
> sentiments were closely allied to that of Spinoza.
> Baruch Spinoza, a seventeenth Jewish philosopher,
> was
> the author of a rigorously monistic interpretation
> of
> reality, and Einstein had read Spinoza'a Ethics
> while
> working at the Berne office. When Rabbi Herbert
> Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue in New York
> called Einstein in 1929 to ask whether he believed
> in
> God, Einstein cabled a reply, "I believe in
> Spinoza's
> God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of
> what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with
> the fates and actions of human beings"
>
> Einstein was influenced by Spinoza's belief in
> determinism in which all events in nature occur
> according to immutable laws of cause and effect.
> Einstein also believed like, Spinoza, that some
> superior intelligence reveals itself in the harmony
> of
> the universe. Then again, like Spinoza, Einstein
> regarded the idea of a personal God as an
> anthropomorphism. For Einstein there is no personal
> God, but held that there is "a spirit is manifest in
> the laws of the Universe- a spirit vastly superior
> to
> that of man, and one in the face of which we with
> our
> modest powers must feel humble" . Further, Einstein
> believed that the laws of nature though complex can
> be
> understood by the human person and hence Einstein
> could assert "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he
> is
> not."
>
> In the second chapter, Jammer explores Einstein's
> writings and lectures on religion and its role in
> society, and how far they have been accepted by the
> general public and by professional theologians like
> Dean R. Fowler, Paul Tillich or Frederick Pond
> Ferr�.
> Einstein not only gave lectures on the theme of
> religion and science but also responded to many
> queries addressed to him by several clergy and
> rabbis.
> Further, Einstein was also interviewed by several
> religious peoples and other scholars including the
> Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore.
>
> Jammer gives a vivid account of Einstein's meeting
> with Rabindranath Tagore in his home at Caputh in
> the
> summer of 1930. Tagore the Nobel Laureate for
> literature in 1913 and Einstein both shared a love
> of
> music and of nature. The discussion turned to truth
> and beauty and to the question whether they are
> independent of the human person. When Tagore denied
> that truth or beauty is independent of the human
> person, Einstein asked Tagore "If there would be no
> human beings anymore, the Apollo of Belvedere would
> no
> longer be beautiful?" When Tagore replied "No",
> Einstein answered "I agree with regard to this
> conception of Beauty but not with respect to Truth."
> Einstein's point was that scientific truth must be
> conceived as a truth independent of reality. When
> Tagore claimed," If there be some truth which has no
> sensuous or rational relation to the human mind, it
> will ever remain as nothing so long as we remain
> human
> beings." Einstein seems to have replied
> triumphantly,
> "Then I am more religious than you are."
>
> One of Einstein's articles published and preserved
> is
>
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