Differing perspectives in religion and philosophy

✍ Scribed by A. Boyce Gibson

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7047
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00136285

✦ Synopsis

The problem is as follows. Both religion and philosophy are totalizing activities: not activities achieving totality, but still, activities expressing a drive towards totality, even though its formulations will always be transitional. Now significant activities can get along together provided they are compartmental, provided they observe limits. What sets them against each other is the propensity to totalize. But neither religion nor philosophy can afford not to totalize. For that reason they have frequently been in conflict. But if there are two totalizing perspectives, each, in its own way, including the other, and each, through its tension with the other, helping to hold the other in place, there is hope of a settlement. That is the thesis it is here proposed to maintain. I.