File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9805, message 237


Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 11:31:37 -0700
Subject: Re: leap of faith


Dr Eldred writes:
>[...]
>So not a “leap of faith” (which is a based on a believing-in another being
which 
>accepts and trusts that this other being sees and knows more than we do --
faith 
>has to be blind in this sense) but a leap to somewhere else where everything 
>looks slightly different.

thank you sir.  i enjoyed your comments.

-- for me it is every-thing from the "cogito" to the body and it's "drives
and effects" that is the leap-of-faith.  the entanglement with *an*
"absolute validity" of metaphysical reasoning that ultimately can only be
one of blind faith.

my very best regards--


Robert T. Guevara   | guevara-AT-rain.org
Electrical Engineer | guevarb-AT-mugu.navy.mil
Camarillo CA, USA   | http://www.rain.org/~guevara


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