From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 19:01:35 BST
Hi All
I think many of us confuse mass religious practice
which is a social phenomenon, with the intellectual
religious thinking that began at least with the
Christian neo-Platonist -in so far as we think of
religious thought as some how superseded by modern
scientific rationality. Religious thinking has been highly
intellectual but in the context of faith, although the importance
of doubt also emerged as an important aspect of thought and
faith. To my mind, the best of religious thought touches upon
what we may call mystical thought, or thinking about transcendence,
or better still, thinking about DQ. Most secular intellectual thought has
been focused on SQ and the notion of objectivity and essence.
Pushing this SOM polarity, with all the focus on the one pole,
has given us a mechanistic and deterministic scientific outlook until now.
Now this is breaking down, post-modernism has torn up the notion
of objectivity, science has torn up the notion of determinism, Heidegger,
Pirsig, etc
have torn up the dualism itself. So where are we now. As Arthur Gibson has
pointed
out, when we rethink the present, we will also rethink the past. The
post-moderns
think they have torn up the SQ focused quest for certainty. For myself,
I think we need to place our understanding of SQ in the context of a
recognition
of DQ activity. This takes us back to the need to encircle the boundaries of
DQ
activity, so we may want to go back to look at the pre-secular intellectual
resources
as Gibson suggests. I say encircle because the problem of of conceptualising
DQ is well known to us.
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