From: "Christopher Honey" <CH1745-AT-pluto.aum.edu>
Date:          Sun, 31 May 1998 20:55:17 +600
Subject:       Re: leap of faith


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> Dr Eldred writes:
> >[...]
> >So not a oleap of faithoe (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
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How much "blind faith" does Heidegger ask of us I wonder.  While not 
irrationalist by any means, there is a streak of anti-rationalism in 
him, or, rather, he rationalist in the Greek sense rather than in the 
20th century scientific paradigm.

Christopher Honey
AUM
Dept of History


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