![]() ![]() ![]() The Bhagavad Gita, a major Hindu text, teaches that there are four different paths which path one should take depends on one’s talents and predilections. Of course this was not the only path that Indians recognized. To many people in ancient India, including the Buddha, it made perfectly good sense to use our rational faculties in the pursuit of salvation. But this was not the view of classical Indian culture, nor was it held by the ancient Greeks, or by the philisophers of medieval Islam. It is to hold that reason and logical investigation are of little or no use in seeking slavation. Now to think of religion as a faith is to suppose that soteriological concerns can only be addressed through a form of emotional commitment. A soteriology is a doctrine of salvation. ![]() ![]() The concerns of religion are, in a word, soteriological. When we think of a religion as dealing with spiritual matters, it is this concern with attaining salvation, of escaping from an unsatisfactory way of being, that we have in mind. Life is a restful race to outrun sleep and catch up to your dreams Mark Siderits # Some entries are duplicated, it’s still a work in progress. This is an unordered selection of quotes, not ranked nor pruned, not (really) reflection what I agree or disagree with, simply quotes that I found interesting, insightful, or or made me think. ![]()
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