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The Seat of Man's Intellect: What Says Your God?

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The Seat of Man's Intellect: What Says Your God?
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RE: The Seat of Man's Intellect: What Says Your God?
August 29, 2015 at 9:15 pm (This post was last modified: August 29, 2015 at 9:16 pm by Mudhammam.)
(August 29, 2015 at 6:33 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Could you expand on this, Nestor?

How is the idea that the term "heart", a metaphor or idiom for that innermost place within man, problematic?

What are we really saying when we say that an athlete has "heart" or that we know something to be true in our "heart of hearts".
It's quite simple Randy. The idiom derives from an era when our most thoughtful predecessors actually believed they were thinking, deciding, feeling, etc., with their heart.. They were wrong but the notion has retained its common, albeit incorrect, usage.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: The Seat of Man's Intellect: What Says Your God? - by Mudhammam - August 29, 2015 at 9:15 pm

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