File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2004/bhaskar.0406, message 15


From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-mail.com>
Subject: Re: BHA: God
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 13:49:47 -0400


Similarly, one might ask whether the argument that science is just one way
of knowing doesn't slide headlong into judgmental relativism.  At the very
least, there needs to be a clear theory of what constitutes knowledge (as
opposed to belief, myth, fiction, advertising puffery, etc).

T.

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Tobin Nellhaus
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"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Engelskirchen" <howarde-AT-twcny.rr.com>
To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: BHA: God


> But there's another issue, Mervyn:  having taken deities on and situated
> science as just one way of knowing, can critical realism any longer be
> called a scientific realism?
>
> Howard
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mervyn Hartwig" <mh-AT-jaspere7.demon.co.uk>
> To: <bhaskar-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 4:42 AM
> Subject: Re: BHA: God
>
>
> > Not significant for you, but it always has been for the great majority
> > of humans (though in the present case it's probably - Jamie could verify
> > - not the supernatural that's being discussed but an immanent God). It's
> > never too late to start thinking critically about anything! - and in
> > particular how to arrive at a position that won't gratuitously offend
> > religious people who are committed to emancipation or capable of moving
> > in that direction but will instead provide a basis for
> > unity-in-difference.
> >
> > If you don't want to think about these issues, that's fine. But then
> > there's nothing further to be said.
> >
> > Mervyn
> >
> >  Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu> writes
> > >What about those of us who are atheists by birthright more than merit?
I
> > >mean, in my 74 years I have never found any reason to consider the
> > >existence of the supernatural as a significant question for me. Hence
> > >discussion of the rationality or irrationality of believing in god
> > >simply strikes me as weird, since it presupposes a premise (that the
> > >existence of god is a question worth considering) that simply has never
> > >been part of my thinking, feeling, or practice.
> > >
> > >Carrol
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
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