Subject: Re: gods and men
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 14:45:32 EST
In a message dated 1/9/00 12:39:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, erespess@nji.com
writes:
> Are you saying these two options are mutually exclusive, and if so,
> how do you figure that?
>
> Elizabeth
Good response.
I think it would be a mistake to say they're mutually exclusive, but the
first option (reason is what humanity has in common with the gods) allows for
the second (that it is a social construct), while the second does not allow
for the first. I also think the way I've framed the question entails a
confusion between a natural capability and a formal discipline. Whatever
form the formal discipline takes, it is a social construct (I agree with Matt
on this point).
But I think at that stage of the argument the comparison was (we thought)
being made between "natural" reasoning and "unnatural" religious belief. And
I think we abandoned that path.
Jim
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