deadk
29th August 2006, 08:20
*scholarship
I can find very little, in the way of a constant standard, that separates "religion" from other "philosophy" paradigms.
A religion doesn't have to be theistic, as that Humanism and Buddhism are both considered religions- so god truly doesn't matter in regards to this topic. Furthermore, is it not true that all our actions are guided by principles ultimately stemming from the question "what is truth?" It may be said by some that "religion" is distinct because it answers this question metaphysically. This, of course, negates the fact that the question itself is metaphysical.
Overall, it seems that religion and "philosophy" are inseparable. Unless we have misplaced the meaning of philosophy.
Linguistically, "metaphysics" is the word the Greeks used to stand for the center and core that determines all philosophy. We typically understand philosophy as the mapping out of implications that stem from our first principles. Philosophy, as it is understood in modernity, reveals all these "systems" and "paradigms" before us- it allows us to understand logic. It allows us to be scholarly, but what of philosophic?
Martin Heidegger supposed that "The misinterpretations by which philosophy remains constantly besieged are mainly promoted by what people like us to do, this is, by professors of philosophy. Their customary, and also legitimate and even useful business is to transmit a certain educationally appropriate acquaintance with philosophy as it has presented itself so far. This then looks as though it itself were philosophy, whereas at most it is scholarship about philosophy?"
Even Leo Strauss, a student of Heidegger, who is one of Americas greatest philosophers believed himself to be a scholar- and not a philosopher.
So we then ask what is philosophy. And we find philosophy in the questioning of that which shouldn't be questioned- the question of nihilism. This question is most appropriately phrased in the statement "Why are their Beings at all, instead of nothing?" Then the first question we are finally lead to ask is why do we need to ask why? Yes, I mean to say "why the Why."
Can philosophy, in this sense, ever be achieved? Or is all philosophizing the same as accounting or mathematics? Does philosophy exist or does only scholarship exist? And if philosophy does not exist, it appears that nihilism will still have its grasp on us- since I will not be able to logically attain truth; truth can only be treated as chance and one cannot logically (in the sense of pure reason) claim one choice is better than another.
Niechize saw this and claimed that Man had a choice between blissful ignorance or a "deadly truth." I appears to me, that in this "deadly truth", within an analysis of nihilism, salvation from nihilism might be found. I have not quite progressed beyond this, nor would it be appropriate for me to pretend I have and speculate. But with this in mind I would like to ask you all "Why do Beings exist at all instead of nothing?"
I can find very little, in the way of a constant standard, that separates "religion" from other "philosophy" paradigms.
A religion doesn't have to be theistic, as that Humanism and Buddhism are both considered religions- so god truly doesn't matter in regards to this topic. Furthermore, is it not true that all our actions are guided by principles ultimately stemming from the question "what is truth?" It may be said by some that "religion" is distinct because it answers this question metaphysically. This, of course, negates the fact that the question itself is metaphysical.
Overall, it seems that religion and "philosophy" are inseparable. Unless we have misplaced the meaning of philosophy.
Linguistically, "metaphysics" is the word the Greeks used to stand for the center and core that determines all philosophy. We typically understand philosophy as the mapping out of implications that stem from our first principles. Philosophy, as it is understood in modernity, reveals all these "systems" and "paradigms" before us- it allows us to understand logic. It allows us to be scholarly, but what of philosophic?
Martin Heidegger supposed that "The misinterpretations by which philosophy remains constantly besieged are mainly promoted by what people like us to do, this is, by professors of philosophy. Their customary, and also legitimate and even useful business is to transmit a certain educationally appropriate acquaintance with philosophy as it has presented itself so far. This then looks as though it itself were philosophy, whereas at most it is scholarship about philosophy?"
Even Leo Strauss, a student of Heidegger, who is one of Americas greatest philosophers believed himself to be a scholar- and not a philosopher.
So we then ask what is philosophy. And we find philosophy in the questioning of that which shouldn't be questioned- the question of nihilism. This question is most appropriately phrased in the statement "Why are their Beings at all, instead of nothing?" Then the first question we are finally lead to ask is why do we need to ask why? Yes, I mean to say "why the Why."
Can philosophy, in this sense, ever be achieved? Or is all philosophizing the same as accounting or mathematics? Does philosophy exist or does only scholarship exist? And if philosophy does not exist, it appears that nihilism will still have its grasp on us- since I will not be able to logically attain truth; truth can only be treated as chance and one cannot logically (in the sense of pure reason) claim one choice is better than another.
Niechize saw this and claimed that Man had a choice between blissful ignorance or a "deadly truth." I appears to me, that in this "deadly truth", within an analysis of nihilism, salvation from nihilism might be found. I have not quite progressed beyond this, nor would it be appropriate for me to pretend I have and speculate. But with this in mind I would like to ask you all "Why do Beings exist at all instead of nothing?"