Heidegger

>>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.
Anthony replies:
> Isn’t that assumption philosophically equivalent […]

>From: allen scult
>As for religion, like, philosophy, it’s imcomparable. Religion IS, and IS
>like nothing else is.The fact that it is, is what makes it so well suited
>to phenomenological investigation. As Heidegger said by way of properly
>orienting his students to the course, religion is as real as the train
>station in Freiburg. . […]

>>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 […]

>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 […]

I’m glad you returned.
You might have noticed that some of the boys have
been bad-mouthing religion, once again
cataloguing the ridiculous and terrible things
people do with it, as if that had something to do
with it. Of course, what people do with it has
nothing to do with it. Presuming the mattering
of to-do-with-it reduces any idea […]

Allen Anew: :The traditional interpretation, of course, is return to God,
but the expression itself has, in this case, dropped “God” because obvious,
thereby, perhaps inadvertently, but it doesn’t matter, leaving it open to
interpretation.. Anyway, I think the basic ” return to” is what’s essential
here–the movement, the how. . .
Tympan anew: Ultimately it is impossible […]