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Necessity, not superstition, rules
Those superstitious people would think that religious experience can provide them glimpses of the supernatural prefer their superstition that the necessity of natural causes. Yes, some might claim that the supernatural works through the natural, but that is a useless redundancy.
The Aquinas- Shelley argument is as Percy Bysshe Shelley so wisely maintains:" To suppose that some existence beyond, or above them [ the descriptions-laws - of Naature,M.L.] is to invent a second and superfluous hypothesis to account for what already is accounted for.To aver that that is a metaphysical category mistake begs the question thereof.
Leucippus would concur then that all religious experience is people's own minds at work. To aver supernatural input begs the question.
People cam as Sacks maintains self-induce those experiences. Our body chemistry accounts for those experiences.
Why then would one ever want to be superstitious?
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Necessity and You
The previous article stresses how to rouse people to act through necessity. Leucippus would add that this should be through Nature, not through the superstitions of the supernatural and the paranormal- what the recently late Dr. Paul Kurtz calls " The Transcendental Temptation," a must read book.
Using a greater purpose can help rouse us, but that purpose should never be that of superstition; instead it should be as Peter Singer suggests the eradication of poverty and such.
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