Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Ethik, Bekehrung, religiöse; das Andere

Kurzinhalt: Religiöse Bekehrung; "erweiterte" empirische Methode (Bewusstseinsdaten)

Textausschnitt: () Such religious conversion involves a response on the part of a person or community to a 'totally other.
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Such an authentic conversion is, therefore, primarily a call to practice more morally and reasonably ordered ways of human living.
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So to the method we have pursued in this study is also empirical, but it is a generalized empirical method because, in addition to appealing to immediate sensible data as scientists do, we have also appealed to the immediate data of our own conscious experiences. This appeal has been directed not primarily to subjects or objects, but to the operations through which subjects and objects are mediated cognitively, morally, and religiously.