{"id":7462,"date":"2015-01-07T05:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T05:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/07\/levels-of-reality-and-the-essence-of-religion\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T05:20:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T05:20:15","slug":"levels-of-reality-and-the-essence-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/07\/levels-of-reality-and-the-essence-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Levels of Reality and the Essence of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Reading John Anderson has enhanced my sense of the centrality of the question of levels of reality for those of us who view philosophy as a quest for the Absolute and a project of self-transformation.&#0160; Of course it was more or less obvious to me all along, Plato&#39;s Allegory of the Cave being the richest depiction we have of the two-world theme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Essential to religion is the belief that there is what William James calls an &quot;unseen order&quot; (<em>Varieties of Religious Experience<\/em>, 53), a higher order, above or behind the phenomenal order of time and change, doubt and confusion, mendacity and evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The unseen order is to be affirmed without the phenomenal order being denied.&#0160; So there are two levels of reality.&#0160; How exactly they are related is the problem, or one problem.&#0160; We will pursue the problem in due course in connection with John Passmore&#39;s discussion of the &quot;Two-Worlds Argument&quot; in his <em>Philosophical Reasoning<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading John Anderson has enhanced my sense of the centrality of the question of levels of reality for those of us who view philosophy as a quest for the Absolute and a project of self-transformation.&#0160; Of course it was more or less obvious to me all along, Plato&#39;s Allegory of the Cave being the richest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/07\/levels-of-reality-and-the-essence-of-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Levels of Reality and the Essence of Religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modes-of-being","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}