Uzique The Lesser wrote:
i'm not sure you can sum up high-level philosophy in 1-5 sentences. nor can you understand an idea in its entirety without being familiar with the doctrine from the ancient greeks onwards. that's the thing with these non-engineering subjects: they take work and actual reading.
let's just make it easier: what do you think nietzsche's famous 'god is dead' statement means? that one can at least be understood literally without needing to have read aristotle.
I'm not sure of the context of that statement (I might have read it years ago but forgot). To take that statement solely at face value with a sprinkle of philosophy, I take it to mean that (in brief):
- We have a history of creating a God(s) and religion based around it.
- Morality is "created" from these religious works/teachings.
- Different societies create different God(s) and religions.
- Sectarian violence (disagreements) amongst these societies undoubtedly arise because each God(s) and its associative religion define themselves as being omnipotent (ie. there can only be one).
- All this violence is created by us in the first place from the inception of an omnipotent being that dictates our morality. Also, the clashes between different religions (or its sects) contradicts the morality dictated for us in the first place.
- We've effectively killed morality (ie. the God(s) we associated ourselves with) in this sense.
It's 10:40 PM so this is the best I can muster at this hour given no context. There's also a point about basic human instinct/nature that I wanted to mention but it'd be too long.
I have a feeling that that statement is anti-religious (I'm an agnostic atheist). Trying to point out that religion will always end up in a state of corruption and "immoral" behavior (relative to the morals of the religion under discussion).
Last edited by Nyte (2013-07-24 19:47:01)
Alpha as fuck.