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In likening (not equating!) scientific with religious experience: “What, in the end are all our verifications but experiences that agree with more or less isolated systems of ideas that our minds have framed? But why in the name of common sense need we assume that only one such system of ideas can be true?” (122). That’s some radical empiricism for you! But strangely compelling and convincing.
— May 06, 2025 07:03PM
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when a religion has become an orthodoxy, its day of inwardness is over: the spring is dry, the faithful live at second hand exclusively and stone the prophets in their turn. The new church, in spite of whatever human goodness it may foster, can be henceforth counted on as a staunch ally in every attempt to stifle the spontaneous religious spirit
— May 10, 2025 09:23AM
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“Kant held a curious doctrine about such objects of belief as God [… these things] are properly not objects of knowledge at all. Our conceptions always require a sense-content […] and as words ‘soul,’ ‘God,’ ‘immortality’ cover no distinctive sense-content [… they are] devoid of any significance. Yet they have a definite meaning for our practice. We can act as if there were a God” (55)
— May 04, 2025 04:20AM
