Thursday, July 26, 2007
FORTUNE COOKIE
If I'm going to
believe people I don't understand,
what difference does it make
if they're mathematical physicists
or fundamentalist theologians?
If I don't understand something, what
criteria do I use to determine
whether it's gobbledygook
or a fuller understanding?
We're not compelled to believe what
we don't understand.
We are free to be agnostic.
Agnostic with regard to theology.
And
Agnostic with regard to science.
Rationalism and mysticism are two ways of thinking about things.
Each delivers benefits and detriments, which can be charted.
Which comes out on top? Forget it. We don't have to choose.
Our freedoms include the freedom to create cosmologies, theologies and metaphysical systems of whatever complexity—a la carte.
We can all be Rortian ironists, ironically, by creating new metaphysical philosophies. Philosophy is a creative art that has to have as its objective breaking the conventions of the tribe, in our case the dualism of rationalism and mysticism (as generalizations of our various guiding dichotomies).
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