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L'irréligion de l'avenir: Étude sociologique
Publié par Palala Press, le 01 septembre 2015
558 pages
Résumé
Excerpt from The Non-Religion of the Future: A Sociological Study, Tr, From the FrenchThe definition which has perhaps been most widely adopted of late years, with divers modifications by Strauss, by Pfleiderer, by Lotze, and by M. Reville, is that of Schleier macher. According to him, the essence of religion consists in the feeling that we all have of our own absolute dependence. The powers in respect to which this dependence is felt we call divinities. On the other hand, according to Feuerbach, the origin, nay the essence even of religion is desire: if man possessed no needs, no desires, he would possess no gods. If grief and evil did not exist, says Hartmann later on, there would be no religion the gods, even the gods of history, are no more than the powers to whom man looks for what he does not possess, and wants, to whom he looks for relief, for salva tion, for happiness. The respective definitions of Schleier macher and Feuerbach, taken separately, are incomplete it is at least necessary, as Strauss suggests, to superpose them. The religious sentiment is primarily, no doubt, a feeling of dependence; but this feeling of dependence, really to give birth to religion, must provoke in one a reaction - a desire of deliverance. To feel one's own weakness; to be conscious of limitations of all sorts which bound one's life, and then to desire to augment one's power over one's self and over the material universe; to enlarge one's sphere of action; to attain once more to a comparative independence in face of the necessities of every kind which hem one in - such is the course of the human mind in the presence of the universe.
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