Timeline for Is religious authority justified?
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| Sep 28, 2023 at 1:35 | comment | added | user67675 | no it wasn't a straw man, as i wasn't arguing against what i said. simplification, yes @TedWrigley please stop picking fights. it's unnecessary. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 1:34 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | @prof_post: Your previous post was all straw-men: weak, simplistic representations of complex concepts. That's not a problem — no one knows something until they've come to know it — but you seem uninterested in pursuing the matter. Not going to learn anything that way.... | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 1:25 | comment | added | user67675 | if you have a problem with something i've said then please quote it @TedWrigley otherwise i might suppose it's you that is constructing straw men | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 1:17 | comment | added | user67675 | i am not arguing with anything, and i don't know what straw men i have constructed @TedWrigley | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 0:59 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | @prof_post: Religion is generally liturgical: a set of texts, rituals, and symbolisms that acts as a system of social organization and cohesion. They can lean towards educative or authoritative styles. Mysticisms are esoteric teachings and practices meant to convey understanding of trans-linguistic realities. Philosophies are efforts at bringing deeper understandings of human existence into language and experience. Science deals specifically with analysis of the non-human material world. Your not going to get anywhere if you argue from straw-men | |
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| Sep 27, 2023 at 18:45 | comment | added | user67675 | mysticism is usually thought of as religious like and scientists and philosophers might claim to have mystic insights @TedWrigley i still don't see the problem | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 18:43 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | @prof_post: you implied it in the broad use of 'authority' across domains (as though 'empirical adequacy' were the appropriate measure for everything) and your explicit lumping of religion, mysticism, philosophy, and science together in the second paragraph. As I said, your language here makes it hard to get at what you're trying to understand, much less provide an answer. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 16:55 | comment | added | user67675 | where did i say there was no difference @TedWrigley ? | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 6:17 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | I mean, do you think that scientific, moral, political, and personal authority (authenticity) are interchangeable, merely because we label them all 'authority'? Someone like Christ, Buddha, or Nietzsche isn't trying to tell us how to build a jet plane; they're trying to tell us how to live our lives better. It's a different research context entirely. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 6:13 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | This question is a bit confused and seriously over-broad. I mean, I could answer it, but I suspect even the simplest, bare-bones answer would run three to five standard pages (about ten paragraphs). I'd have to differentiate authority, belief, reason/inference, then differentiate between the sense of the term 'authority' (power vs understanding vs status...). Then I'd have to get into the idea that there are various incommensurate modes of authority, each with its own mode of reasoning. | |
| Sep 25, 2023 at 19:33 | answer | added | DKing | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 13:19 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 8:39 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | But religion can be discussed also from the philosophical point of view, that means: elucidating concept, asking question, making conjectures, discussing arguments. All this means that by definition NO religious authority can be considered as a justification for statement, theories and beliefs. What about "inference"? Of course, philosophical arguments use inference. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 8:37 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | Religious belief, like many others, is a matter of opinions. Thus, in general, Russell's opinions on religion are at the same level of those of a layman. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 8:36 | answer | added | NotThatGuy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 7:07 | comment | added | user67675 | non-inference! @MauroALLEGRANZA | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 6:04 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | "inference"??? Religion is about belief as faith, while logic and science is about belief as knowledge. | |
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