[MD] Kierkegaard

[ian glendinning]

I'll add a comment to my own post, using something David M said on
another forum, that ties in with - "the same paradoxical path"
referred to.

To paraphrase DM
"Both scientific rationality and christian theistic tradition are
equally reductionist / simplistic when it comes to explaining the
whole of reality. Neither has a monopoly on being wrong."

Discuss.
Ian

On 3/20/08, ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent edition of "In Our Time today" on Kierkegaard
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080320.shtml
>
> [QUOTE]
> It's also fascinating that he saw the two great teachers, Socrates and
> Jesus Christ, as eschewing the same paradoxical path towards truth.
> It is open to speculation what he would have thought of the influence
> he had on the atheistic Jean-Paul Sartre.
>
> But it always came back to Christianity.  Kierkegaard knew that it did
> not make sense.  It was a challenge to reason and that was the
> magnetic mystery of it because there was, undoubtedly, truth in it.
> It's an awful pity that Dawkins could not have been around then.
> Perhaps even more of a pity that Kierkegaard could not be around now.
> [UNQUOTE]
>
> Regards
> Ian
> BTW - for those who have trouble with these on-line links - humour me
> - go to the "Podcast" page and right-click on the "Download Episode"
> link and "Save Target", or whatever equivalent Mac users have to do.
>