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Reasonable Faith
Using reason to understand faith will increase the utility and popularity of faith, not replace it.
I just started listening to a great podcast on Nietzsche, called The Nietzsche Podcast, of course.
My starting point was his earliest podcast which I assumed is the best way to go. Of course he said something the sparked a thought I couldn’t let go and here I am writing it out to better understand it and not completing the podcast. It’s not even an idea about Nietzsche, but about the evolution of our ideas.
The author, Keegan Kjeldsen, talks about the great philosophers and why they are great, and mentions a time when humanity started asking philosophical questions and seeking the answers. But here is where I depart:
I don’t think we started asking questions and seeking those answers. I think we had the answers and started seeking questions to understand the answers we already had.
The Bicameral Mind
This is likely heavily influenced by my reading of Julian Jaynes’ theory on consciousness as introspection born of our use of language and writing.
