Etymology: dyeu- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to shine."
Make washing the dishes shine, babe! :halo: — praxis
Change the goalposts all you like, but the answer remains: it is incorrect to describe scientific theories as "belief systems" just as it is incorrect to describe toolkits (or machine systems) as "belief systems". — 180 Proof
The origins of Western religion is interesting and I am sure that Greece was central, but it is probably extremely complex. — Jack Cummins
If a belief system is ‘delusional’ , an existential ‘falsehood’, that implies a correct truth, and the scientistic way of thinking puts scientific method in the privileged role among all the cultural disciplines of arbiter of truth as ‘correctness’. Belief systems, including scientific theories , arent true or false in realism to some fixed standard, they’re useful in relaton to our aims. — Joshs
I’m not at all religious, btw, but still feel moved in the midst of religious rituals. — praxis
Philosophy replaces religion inasmuch as you decide it does. If there is a philosophy which has a spiritual or mystical aspect which is appealing, then you could use than instead of religion. — Manuel
"Metaphysical need?" "Existential void?" These are problems to be addressed and endured (like being embodied), not solved or "cure". There simply is no viable escape from existence. — 180 Proof
I’m not at all religious, btw, but still feel moved in the midst of religious rituals.
— praxis
That's cause it triggers our a priori transcendental need. And the feeling coming from that is indeed overwhelming. Happens to me also. — dimosthenis9
You just moved me to laugh internally. If people actually have an "a priori transcendental need" they are generally astonishlingly piss-poor at satisfying it, and that truly is a shame. — praxis
Kuhn used theory and paradigm interchangeably. — Joshs
we humans NEED a personal cosmotheory!
Surely not the right one, surely not with all answers included, surely limited, surely "naive". BUT our own one!
Our personal one that will help us endure and embody all these questions we have inside us and follow us till we die!To "use" it as to pacify ourselves at the moments when this Existential Void becomes like a volcano. — dimosthenis9
The void is even beautiful in its way, a vast open space — hanaH
What is the void, is it an absence of belief, or something else? — Jack Cummins
The idea which you refer to of there being one true reality is an approach which many, especially thinkers of religious viewpoints adhere to. — Jack Cummins
Many pagan, Jewish, Christian and Muslim philosophers from Antiquity to the Enlightenment made no meaningful distinction between philosophy and religion. Instead they advocated a philosophical religion, arguing that God is Reason and that the historical forms of a religious tradition serve as philosophy's handmaid to promote the life of reason among non-philosophers. Carlos Fraenkel provides the first account of this concept and traces its history back to Plato. He shows how Jews and Christians appropriated it in Antiquity, follows it through the Middle Ages in both Islamic and Jewish forms and argues that it underlies Spinoza's interpretation of Christianity. The main challenge to a philosophical religion comes from the modern view that all human beings are equally able to order their lives rationally and hence need no guidance from religion. Fraenkel's wide-ranging book will appeal to anyone interested in how philosophy has interacted with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious traditions.
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