RE: Atheism, Theism, Science & Philosophy
April 21, 2013 at 10:02 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2013 at 10:06 am by Love.)
(April 21, 2013 at 9:44 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I don't see why recognizing something is a delusion or a hallucination limits a subjective experience except to say that ultimately it's not real. Dreams and fantasies are powerful - but dangerous if you let them control your waking life.
As a former atheist, I used to engage in this kind of thinking. I would be a strident rationalist and instantly dismiss any proposition that seemed to be remotely illogical. Then I started to think abstractly about it and analyse if logic/reason actually has limits; that is, can reason step outside of reason to validate whether or not it actually leads to truth? It became clear that reason should not be used to validate reason because this leads to a circular argument. This led to me reading about the philosophy of logic/reason, history of rationalism and so forth. I just no longer hold the view that reason can account for everything.
