Post by Wei Chen on Jul 29, 2016 0:02:01 GMT
Week 6
1.Why is Fair Chand'sexperience important in understanding the projective nature of religious vision and miracles?
According to Fair Chand’s experience, we learn that he had absolutely no knowledge or awareness of his form appearing to distant povinces or performing miracles to the sick and dying. People say that his form manifests to them and helps them in solving their worldly as well as mental problems. However, in actually, Fair Chand did not go anywhere, nor met anybody.
As we all know that religion is that kind of knowledge which cannot be equated with logical, objective learning. It is a set of beliefs, feelings and practices that define the relationship between human beings and divinity.
From Fair Chand’s experience, people can feel the unknowing sage’s influence, seems like that he is being with them and encouraging them to struggle for better life. In this case, people worship those sages and believe in them. In this case, religion comes into being, and it gives a glimpse of his projective nature of religious vision and miracles.
2.What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
As I have learned that philosophy deals with logic, ethic and physic. It is seeking answers to questions that do not have straight forward to practical answers. While science is different from philosophy, it relies on experiences, researches and observations etc.
In the meantime, philosophy is a general inquiry into the fundamental meaning of life, knowledge and existence. However, science is a very specific and highly defined methodical inquiry into the nature of empirical phenomena.
From philosophy, we can learn what is life, what is love, how to think, how to act, and so on, which leads us to live a better life. For example, as for how to think, philosophy gives us a lot of methods, such as “case by case”, “universal connection”, “Holistic thinking” and so on, which could guide us thinking more efficiently and act more smoothly. Therefore, this is similar to the effects that science can give us.
In the meantime, everything has both sides. If people just learn philosophy but without taking any actions, philosophy is just philosophy. It is just some knowledge in our mind, and will not contribute to any practical effects.
1.Why is Fair Chand'sexperience important in understanding the projective nature of religious vision and miracles?
According to Fair Chand’s experience, we learn that he had absolutely no knowledge or awareness of his form appearing to distant povinces or performing miracles to the sick and dying. People say that his form manifests to them and helps them in solving their worldly as well as mental problems. However, in actually, Fair Chand did not go anywhere, nor met anybody.
As we all know that religion is that kind of knowledge which cannot be equated with logical, objective learning. It is a set of beliefs, feelings and practices that define the relationship between human beings and divinity.
From Fair Chand’s experience, people can feel the unknowing sage’s influence, seems like that he is being with them and encouraging them to struggle for better life. In this case, people worship those sages and believe in them. In this case, religion comes into being, and it gives a glimpse of his projective nature of religious vision and miracles.
2.What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy."
As I have learned that philosophy deals with logic, ethic and physic. It is seeking answers to questions that do not have straight forward to practical answers. While science is different from philosophy, it relies on experiences, researches and observations etc.
In the meantime, philosophy is a general inquiry into the fundamental meaning of life, knowledge and existence. However, science is a very specific and highly defined methodical inquiry into the nature of empirical phenomena.
From philosophy, we can learn what is life, what is love, how to think, how to act, and so on, which leads us to live a better life. For example, as for how to think, philosophy gives us a lot of methods, such as “case by case”, “universal connection”, “Holistic thinking” and so on, which could guide us thinking more efficiently and act more smoothly. Therefore, this is similar to the effects that science can give us.
In the meantime, everything has both sides. If people just learn philosophy but without taking any actions, philosophy is just philosophy. It is just some knowledge in our mind, and will not contribute to any practical effects.