09.08.09
Human nature and beliefs in a ‘spirit world’
Born to believe
Scientists have perhaps missed the point here: the issue is that human nature is not something that fits into the categories of reductionist scientism. Human nature since the period of breakthrough in the ‘Great Explosion’ (whatever/whenever that was) has very naturally (!) included elements of belief in the ‘spirit world’ (whatever that is) and this sometimes slides into god belief, sometimes into spirit beliefs, etc….
From a Kantian perspective such beliefs are not surprising!
backoffscience said,
September 9, 2009 at 10:57 am
I agree that “human nature is not something that fits into catagories of reductionist scientism”, I think. But don’t you see that using technical language like that is part of the science attitude getting in everything? Human culture is a massive narrative, and science can’t explain a story.
Kant, metaphysics, and human (evolutionary) beliefs | Kant’s Challenge said,
September 11, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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argonaut said,
September 11, 2009 at 12:26 pm
The great founder Alfred Wallace was a believer in ghosts. Hard to manage for a Darwinist/reductionist