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—– Original Message —–
From: “bob scheetz”
anthony writes:
>Philosophically, there is still a strong parallel with the
>Husserlian take on equipmentality: the philosophical prioritization
>of the bare ISness of religion apart from its particular
>embodiments, with his scientific prioritization of the bare
>presence/thingness of equipment apart from its particular use. So
>the parallel response (mine to you with Heidegger’s to Husserl)
>would be: religion can be philosophically explicated in terms of
>isness, but at the price of its *true* nature (i.e., at the cost of
>faith in THIS particular embodiment rather than others), just as
>equipmentality can be scientifically (objectively) explicated in
>terms of its thingness, but at the price of its equipmentality.
now i see what you were driving at with your ‘rank’, …fiducial investment,
uncritical acceptance, …your jesus myth is better than mine quod yours is
not a “myth”.
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I obviously don’t hold your mythopoetic explanation of religiosity, so yes
that would be my ranking, but that wasn’t what I was driving at before. I
was saying that even if we just stick to “felt significance,” there’s still
the conflict between the actual leveling of all religions equally into myth
and the felt significance of one religion rather than another - between what
we would know religion is, and the significance with which we are affected.
No intelligent individual who holds your view can come to any other
conclusion than that the felt significance of one religion rather than
another is illusory, since they are *actually* all equally myths, and
therefore none *actually* any more worthy than another. As such, your
explanation reduces felt significance to the level of a necessary delusion,
an inescapable neurosis.
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like allen i’d point out that your assertion of “faith” as
the true nature of religion is circular, itself an assertion of faith. And,
like rank, where the metafors of the absolutes are concerned, faith is
dispensible.
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Bob, how is significance *not* felt rank? To be (e.g.) Christian is for
Jesus to stand out over and above Achilles (for one). That is precisely
Christian significance. To dispense with such standing-out would therefore
be to dispense with religious significance altogether.
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