Post by Brittany Kent on Apr 13, 2016 3:19:05 GMT
1. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles?
Faqir Chand’s experience are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because it displays how our mind may work during a near-death experience. Thinking in the perspective of the war veterans who fought with Faqir Chand, they thought Faqir Chand was their guru because he saved their lives since he knew what to do but this shocked Faquir. This particular experience in his life shows how religious visions and miracles are not all the same nor actual reality but are what each person makes of it based on their own experiences. In the book, “The Unknowing Sage”, it quotes, “On one can describe or even know the entire creation. Up to a certain extent to which man’s mind has access, one can say something. But nobody can tell about the entire universe.”
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” means without science, there is no real philosophy. Philosophy done poorly is just a bunch of theories and ideas. On the other hand, philosophy done properly is when those strongly believe theories are proven with science experiments. In the book, "The Unknowing Sage", Mark Juergensmeyer highlights how science is considered a guru, “science is knowledge, similar to a Guru that you learn from” (pg. 68). Faqir refers to science as a teacher. In that case, referring back to the phrase, science is the teacher and philosophy is the student. This reflects back to philosophy being the student, they will question and question to try to solve something and then the teacher is the science since they are demonstrating to prove something. The teacher will do experiments to prove, so the students can observe. Science is needed in order to come to conclusions to theories.
Faqir Chand’s experience are important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles because it displays how our mind may work during a near-death experience. Thinking in the perspective of the war veterans who fought with Faqir Chand, they thought Faqir Chand was their guru because he saved their lives since he knew what to do but this shocked Faquir. This particular experience in his life shows how religious visions and miracles are not all the same nor actual reality but are what each person makes of it based on their own experiences. In the book, “The Unknowing Sage”, it quotes, “On one can describe or even know the entire creation. Up to a certain extent to which man’s mind has access, one can say something. But nobody can tell about the entire universe.”
2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
The phrase “philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy” means without science, there is no real philosophy. Philosophy done poorly is just a bunch of theories and ideas. On the other hand, philosophy done properly is when those strongly believe theories are proven with science experiments. In the book, "The Unknowing Sage", Mark Juergensmeyer highlights how science is considered a guru, “science is knowledge, similar to a Guru that you learn from” (pg. 68). Faqir refers to science as a teacher. In that case, referring back to the phrase, science is the teacher and philosophy is the student. This reflects back to philosophy being the student, they will question and question to try to solve something and then the teacher is the science since they are demonstrating to prove something. The teacher will do experiments to prove, so the students can observe. Science is needed in order to come to conclusions to theories.