Westphal (Hermenuetics of Suspcion)
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- Created on: 14-06-13 09:14
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- Hume + Hurmenutics of suspicion
- Hurmeneutics = study of how to interpret things so hermeneutics of suspicion = philosophcal stance on interpretting things suspiciously
- Scepticism goes back to Ancient Greeks - involves questioning what is possible to know with any certainty - to be sceptical about religion is to qustion someones basis for "knowing God"
- Suspicion on the other hand asks about motives - what motivated religious believers - Hume suggests in natural history of religion that beelivers are motivated by fear and self interest
- Scepticism goes back to Ancient Greeks - involves questioning what is possible to know with any certainty - to be sceptical about religion is to qustion someones basis for "knowing God"
- HUME
- Stated he was a Deist but clearly athiest - instead of distinguishing between good kernal and bad husks of religion - questioned whether religion might not be bad to the bone
- DAWKINS - religious morality is just "sucking up" - a way of reaping material or perhaps false eschatological benefits
- Contrasts wih Kant divine command and Duty for Duties sake which is clearly not selfish
- The History of all hither to existing society is the history of class struggles - Marx - Oppressed by Selifish Husk Church
- Rituals are obsessive neurosis acts
- Freud - Religion is wish fulfillment - Universal neurosis
- DAWKINS - religious morality is just "sucking up" - a way of reaping material or perhaps false eschatological benefits
- Stated he was a Deist but clearly athiest - instead of distinguishing between good kernal and bad husks of religion - questioned whether religion might not be bad to the bone
- Marx - religion is the opiate of the people
- Religion destroys the most divine feeling in man - the sense of truth
- DAWKINS - religious morality is just "sucking up" - a way of reaping material or perhaps false eschatological benefits
- Contrasts wih Kant divine command and Duty for Duties sake which is clearly not selfish
- The History of all hither to existing society is the history of class struggles - Marx - Oppressed by Selifish Husk Church
- Rituals are obsessive neurosis acts
- Freud - Religion is wish fulfillment - Universal neurosis
- Religion Justifies the position of superior - inc Church - workers accept inferiority as "will of God"
- DAWKINS - religious morality is just "sucking up" - a way of reaping material or perhaps false eschatological benefits
- Oppressed creature in a hostile world
- Religion destroys the most divine feeling in man - the sense of truth
- Neitzsche - Slave morality - encourages people to humiliate themselves
- Wanted people to live life affirmingly not life denying.
- Lower classes turn to religion becuase they think that god is on their side in opposing their oppressors
- Keirkegaard - Chirstians too comfortable with society
- Hurmeneutics = study of how to interpret things so hermeneutics of suspicion = philosophcal stance on interpretting things suspiciously
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