[lbo-talk] On the Threat from Religion

[Chris Doss]

What Shane doesn't rea;ize is that what he thinks is keen reason is actually epistomological solipsism, i.e., something only exists and concerns me if I can understand it. It equates the way the world is experienced by a certain kind of hominid with the world, which is quite funny.

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, Philp Pilkington <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Not at all. If you conceive of human understanding as
> absolutely open-ended
> and thus accept your relative ignorance (i.e. not possesing
> absolute
> knowledge) of many things not only will you be able to
> avoid dogmatic
> statements and prescriptions but you'll also recognise
> that there will
> always be something new to seek out and understand. Its not
> so much relating
> the "unknowable" as much as it is allowing it a
> place in the structure of
> human understanding. That's what I'd see as a
> humanist approach to "what is
> outside of experience and outside of possible
> conceptualization".
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