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> If you’re going to argue that’s exclusively the realm of religion, then what were nietzche and Plato and Sartre doing? I'm arguing that certainty is the real
by elfexec 7y ago
> If you’re going to argue that’s exclusively the realm of religion, then what were nietzche and Plato and Sartre doing?
I'm arguing that certainty is the realm of religion. "Religion provides certainty. Philosophy is more honest and does not."
When it comes to the meaning of life, good and evil, soul or the abyss, heaven or hell, religion provides certainty. There are 10 commandments and accept Christ. You have the rules laid out for you.
Philosophy is a neverending open-ended question when it comes to these questions.
In other words, you can keep asking questions in philosophy. In religion, you have the answers so there is no need to keep asking questions. You have certainty.
- Fezzik 7y agoI think you’re confusing certainty with authority. None of the things you mentioned are proved (certain) by religion, they are simply stated by authority as being true (though they are not) and accepted by some as being so. Saying with great conviction that Russel’s teapot orbits the sun, though no one can see it no matter how hard they try, or how powerful a telescope they have, does not make it true.