To all those who commented on the Science and Religion post, thank you. I think you have made a great contribution to the future of this blog which, with podcast taking care of all my personal needs and announcements, will -hopefully, time and God permitting- concentrate more on issues of belief in the twentieth century (I can hear some of my friends groaning there in the back. To them, speak now or forever hold your peace). In that spirit, a great quotation of the JTSer Rebbe -Abraham Joshua Heschel z''l- which pretty much describes where I am now religiously and philosophically:
"The fundamentalists claim that all the ultimate questions have been answered: the logical positivists maintain that the ultimate questions are meaningless. Those of us who share neither the conceit of the former nor the unconcern of the latter, and reject both specious answers and false evasions, know that the ultimate issue is at stake in our existence, the relevance of which surpasses all final formulations. It is this embarrassment that is the starting point for our thinking." From God in Search of Man (1955)
In the face of the incapability of analytical philosophy to provide a convincing philosophical proof of the silliness of our big bad romantic questions about ultimate purpose and its recalcitrant denial of any other model (philosophical or otherwise) for approaching problems, should we begin thinking again in terms of a synthetic philosophy? A rennaissance of dialectic? Or is it just me dreaming?
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