Thus, my immanentism (or Epicurean-Spinozist (i.e. void-atoms ~ substance-modes) affinities).At best, philosophy is the critical check on, and active resistance to, the servile, totalitarian, temptations of "religious beliefs and ideas". — 180 Proof
That is particularly accentuated by Protestantism with its emphasis on salvation by faith (which is close to, or actually amounts to, fideism, which was not accepted in the Catholic Church). — Wayfarer
However some forms of religious culture are grounded more in attainment of insight, which is where the philosophical and religious tend to converge somewhat — Wayfarer
I assume philosophy is open to all possible ideas but after talking to a Catholic priest who made it seem like he considered religion and philosophy to be synonymous. However the idea of reincarnation certainly wasn't up for debate at all. The conversation seemed entirely dogmatic. How are these topics related? — TiredThinker
However some forms of religious culture are grounded more in attainment of insight, which is where the philosophical and religious tend to converge somewhat
— Wayfarer
Yes, agreed. "Insight" is an excellent choice of words here. I think that this is precisely what gets lost when people come to view philosophy as a purely critical or negative enterprise. In my opinion, the world's great philosophers and mystics have, first-and-foremost, been the world's great visionaries. When insight ossifies into dogma, you get "religion" (in the pejorative sense of the word). — Aaron R
I freed myself from as a teen with some difficulty, and whose adherents are now infamous for their oppression of their subject, Palestinian populations. — Michael Sol
Quite. In my youth, I believed that such a piercing insight was obtainable, that it would penetrate the problems of existence and render religions obsolete. Now I’m not so sure. — Wayfarer
And honestly, why you keep trying to paint me as an obdurate critic or even much concerned with Christianity is beyond me. If I had any particular animus against a religion it would be that one I was indoctrinated in, the one which I freed myself from as a teen with some difficulty, and whose adherents are now infamous for their oppression of their subject, Palestinian populations. — Michael Sol
You can use all the philosophy in the world to bolster something, but if the core element of it is that it is "revelation" from the supernatural, and therefore "it cannot NOT be true" because of this, it can't really swim with the other philosophies because everything has to fit that supernatural revelation that cannot NOT be true. — schopenhauer1
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