Tag: religion

• October 24, 2024

  Considering A Hypothetical Caste Sorting From A Metaphysical Perspective

  0. Let me speak in the hypothetical. A fictional caste-like system hypothetically makes sense, provided that one can look at the matter from a purely metaphysical (not from a political, historical, cultural, or empirical) point of view. Here’s how: 1. In lieu of believing that all beings are “created equal,” we should take stock of…
• October 22, 2024

  What Is The Relationship Between Brahman And The Universe?

   Swami Prabhavananda’s book The Spiritual Heritage of India provides a beautiful and satisfying answer to the question: “What is the relationship between Brahman and the world, between the One and the many, between Being and becoming?” The pith is that the question must be answered in accordance with the level of development of the student.…
• August 25, 2014

  A review of Chapter One of Sam Harris, Waking Up: Preliminary questions

  I recently read Chapter One of Sam Harris’s forthcoming book, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion and found myself thinking, ‘This may not end up being an excellent book, but for all that it is an important and prescient one.’ (You can read Chapter One here on his website.) Harris’s principal question, which goes unstated…
• March 21, 2013

  Religion without God: Our post-Kantian moment

  Ours is a post-Kantian moment. We can neither do without the idea of transcendence but nor can we embrace it as a substantial presence coursing throughout our lived experiences. For the Kant of the First Critique, reason aspires to travel beyond the bounds of human understanding but, when it does so and when it seeks…