tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post4135254734094135016..comments2024-01-08T00:08:53.008+00:00Comments on ombhurbhuva: Epistemic Dutyombhurbhuvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-29327860900957221822012-05-15T20:36:20.671+01:002012-05-15T20:36:20.671+01:00Elisa:
How can one move into that final stage of t...Elisa:<br />How can one move into that final stage of the ethico-mystical (Von Hugel)? As you mentioned there may be an element of the non-rational in it or what is commonly called grace. I think that Von H. is seriously neglected and could well be the subject of a separate post but what he has to say about the transition to the final stage is :<br />"A final transition, the addition of the third force, that of the emotional experimental life, must yet be safely achieved. And this again is perilous: for the two other forces will even if single, still more if combined, tend, to resist this third force's full share of influence to the uttermost." (from <i>The Mystical Element of Religion</i>)<br /><br />You could be dragged back into superstition or rationalism towards emotional, gullibility or intellectual aridity. Von H. traces this in the various phases of the major religions and the traditions within them.ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-74633310583917296932012-05-15T13:55:34.883+01:002012-05-15T13:55:34.883+01:00Dear Ombhurbhuva,
thanks for the mention. As it i...Dear Ombhurbhuva,<br /><br />thanks for the mention. As it is often the case, I am forced to admit that I am too simple to completely grasp your arguments. If we have an epistemic duty not to be gullable, is there any way in which faith is not epistemically sound? Maybe in the case it is based on personal experience? But then what guarantees the validity of personal experience? Or when there is no other way to know about X?elisa freschihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068583874519657894noreply@blogger.com