Hi Jon, Jon: > You ask a very important epistemological question. I believe how you answer > the question of how we know anything, and what are the presuppositions of > our thought, determine what we ultimate think about the world. > > Our knowledge can come from us, our own minds, or be revealed by God, or > some other spirit. These are the only 3 ways I can think of to ground an > epistemology in.
Steve: How about just saying that we invent new ideas and see how well they serve our purposes? Jon: > But to side step this for now, let me say that it seems that cultures start > out as religious, and then the theological ideas spread to other areas of > thought, they permeate the culture. Steve: You've just jumped right back in with this notion of "theological ideas" as something distinct from every other sort of idea. Are "theological ideas" supposed to be ones obtained through divine revellation? All of them or just some of them? You've already pointed out that Buddhists have different theological ideas from Christians. Did they receive different revellations or did they just invent different ideas to serve their purposes? How do you know? Best, Steve 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/md/archives.html
