I'll add a comment to my own post, using something David M said on another forum, that ties in with - "the same paradoxical path" referred to.
To paraphrase DM "Both scientific rationality and christian theistic tradition are equally reductionist / simplistic when it comes to explaining the whole of reality. Neither has a monopoly on being wrong." Discuss. Ian On 3/20/08, ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent edition of "In Our Time today" on Kierkegaard > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080320.shtml > > [QUOTE] > It's also fascinating that he saw the two great teachers, Socrates and > Jesus Christ, as eschewing the same paradoxical path towards truth. > It is open to speculation what he would have thought of the influence > he had on the atheistic Jean-Paul Sartre. > > But it always came back to Christianity. Kierkegaard knew that it did > not make sense. It was a challenge to reason and that was the > magnetic mystery of it because there was, undoubtedly, truth in it. > It's an awful pity that Dawkins could not have been around then. > Perhaps even more of a pity that Kierkegaard could not be around now. > [UNQUOTE] > > Regards > Ian > BTW - for those who have trouble with these on-line links - humour me > - go to the "Podcast" page and right-click on the "Download Episode" > link and "Save Target", or whatever equivalent Mac users have to do. > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
