World Religions 101 study guide
Phenomenology- a discipline within philosophy that has affected many other disciplines.
-It is the study of science of experience. A descriptive science, wanting to know what experience is.
-trying to define what is true
-the national attitude needs to be bracketed off to allow the experience to speak for itself.
-scienceline that always has the same results. Edmond Husserl- book title is Ideas. Founder of phenomenology.
•main thing about experience is that it is intentional. Consciousness is always intending.
-led to many other sub developments William James-, founder of the school of pragmatism. Wrote the varieties of religious experience. Wants to show how each religion works. originator of pragmatism. Wanted pragmatism to apply to nature as well.
-does it work?
-he defines religion as what works for them
-religion is workable -pragmatism: talks about the truth of what works (practical) if something is true than it works. Rudolph Otto- picked up Husserl’s method and applied it to religious experience.
•his religious experience definition is subjectively: the experience of awe and Objectively: the holy other, meaning power and understanding beyond the ordinary.
Ottos book title: the idea of the holy
-religious objects- can be an event.
-religious ppl- he calls the atmosphere the Numinous – the radiance holy objects have about them. Semiotics- just beginning since 20th century. Study of signs, wanted to talk about every type of sign that has ever existed. To understand reality, all thinking begins with the signs that precede them. Before u get to the meaning of the religion u have to understand the meaning of the sign itself. Feelings form before ideas. C.S Pierce- originator of semiotics. Agreed with James about what works Talks but added something new: the world of signs. Ideas are products of signs. First come the signs then the ideas. Charles Darwin- natural selection, evolution is unpredictable. Life as we know
-It is the study of science of experience. A descriptive science, wanting to know what experience is.
-trying to define what is true
-the national attitude needs to be bracketed off to allow the experience to speak for itself.
-scienceline that always has the same results. Edmond Husserl- book title is Ideas. Founder of phenomenology.
•main thing about experience is that it is intentional. Consciousness is always intending.
-led to many other sub developments William James-, founder of the school of pragmatism. Wrote the varieties of religious experience. Wants to show how each religion works. originator of pragmatism. Wanted pragmatism to apply to nature as well.
-does it work?
-he defines religion as what works for them
-religion is workable -pragmatism: talks about the truth of what works (practical) if something is true than it works. Rudolph Otto- picked up Husserl’s method and applied it to religious experience.
•his religious experience definition is subjectively: the experience of awe and Objectively: the holy other, meaning power and understanding beyond the ordinary.
Ottos book title: the idea of the holy
-religious objects- can be an event.
-religious ppl- he calls the atmosphere the Numinous – the radiance holy objects have about them. Semiotics- just beginning since 20th century. Study of signs, wanted to talk about every type of sign that has ever existed. To understand reality, all thinking begins with the signs that precede them. Before u get to the meaning of the religion u have to understand the meaning of the sign itself. Feelings form before ideas. C.S Pierce- originator of semiotics. Agreed with James about what works Talks but added something new: the world of signs. Ideas are products of signs. First come the signs then the ideas. Charles Darwin- natural selection, evolution is unpredictable. Life as we know