We are incredibly skilled at the (always) subconscious act of looking at or evaluating a thing in a very ‘us’-ish way. Thus, it is all too often the case that: the [re]view says more about the [re]viewer than of that which is [re]viewed the name says more about the namer than of that which is… Continue reading projection
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knowledge of self – knowledge of the other
Feuerbach wasn’t entirely wrong. Projection is a real thing. Anthropomorphism is well known: that we can project human characteristics onto animals. When it comes to Feuerbach and God, I think he just throws out the baby (that humans can know anything of God) with the bathwater (humans are prone to projection). For him, projection is a reason… Continue reading knowledge of self – knowledge of the other
projection, polytheism & judaeo-christian ‘atheism’
One of the standard atheist charges against belief in a god (especially since Feuerbach) is that humans invent a ‘god’ who is nothing more than a ‘projection’ of their own need to believe. The central idea is that all beliefs about ‘gods’ simply reflect what humans want or assume a ‘god’ to be like. Quickly,… Continue reading projection, polytheism & judaeo-christian ‘atheism’
true knowledge
A delicious quote: Knowledge involves the encounter of the probing and projecting subject with the object of its investigation, but it is true knowledge, not when the object is conformed to the imaginative activity of the subject, but when the imaginative activity of the subject is conformed to the reality of the object, when our… Continue reading true knowledge