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Tags: Husserl and religion
>From: allen scult
>Religion finds its true nature only in philosophy, which knows enough to
>investigate religion not in its particular effects, not in its particular
>embodiments, but in its being–religion as as such. Religion gives itself
>to thinking as what it is, as how it is what it is.
Isn’t that assumption philosophically equivalent to Husserl’s assumption
that equipment finds its true nature only in scientific analysis, that it
gives itself to theoria as what it is? And according to Heidegger, doesn’t
that end up depriving it of its very equipmentality? Similarly, couldn’t
someone (me!) argue that philosophy deprives faith of its faith-full-ness,
precisely by depriving it of its particular effects? If religion shows
itself most “as what it is” in abstraction from “its particular effects,”
then isn’t this just philosophy of religion, not religion (just as equipment
becomes “things that we use” to theoria)?
