Website review: Essays: The sacred and the human by...
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•4 reviews since Jul 26, 2007
history, religion
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SoundsLike rated 11 months ago- As we reexamine religion, it is important to remember a lesson from economics: corrections tend to go too far in one direction before equilibrium is reached.
- Blimunda rated 11 months ago
- From the article: "I suspect that, like Nietzsche, Girard has reminded us of truths that we would rather forget--in particular the truth that religion is not primarily about God but about the sacred, and that the experience of the sacred can be suppressed, ignored and even desecrated (the routine tribute paid to it in modern societies) but never destroyed. Always the need for it will arise, for it is in the nature of rational beings like us to live at the edge of things, experiencing our alienation and longing for the sudden reversal that will once again join us to the centre. "
- Sileno rated 11 months ago
- "The Sacred and the Human" by Roger Scruton From the page: "However, Enlightenment thinkers, having shown the claims of faith to be without rational foundation, did not then dismiss religion, as one might dismiss a refuted theory. Many went on to conclude that religion must have some other origin than the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and some other psychic function than consolation. The ease with which the common doctrines of religion could be refuted alerted men like Jacobi, Schiller and Schelling to the idea that religion is not, in essence, a matter of doctrine, but of something else. And they set out to discover what that might be."
