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Credulity and Incredulity in Things Natural Civil and Divine Classic Reprint Meric Casaubon 9781331687955 Books
Casaubon writes this in 1668 when faith in science is replacing faith in God.He does not just defend Christianity, he also defends the Greek and Latin ancients.
Is faith in reason a valid choice?
Is any belief correct if it claims religion?
Is any belief correct if it claims reason?
"From ungrounded belief, gross superstition, by which true religion is not a little infected and adulterated, hath proceeded: but, on the contrary right down Athesim (whether openly proffered, or palliated, as the fashion is:) by which all sense of piety, all sense of immortality, being taken away, and nothing left to man, but what is common to bruts, (since that reason, confined to things sensible and perishable, is little better than sense, and sense, in bruts, is by many deemed, and called reason) man may truly be said, to be metamorphed into another creature." (2)
Casaubon attacks "superstition" as destroying faith, that is, unfounded and foolish religious fables. On the other hand, not to believe in any future life, only material and nothing spiritual, makes man equal to animals. And reason, only based on observation, is then really just "sense" or a reaction to the visible.
This is what happened to Locke's empiricism. It grew into a "faith" in feeling and personal interpretation of reality.
Which side does Casaubon support? He answers:
"neither indeed is it absolutely determinable, which of the two, Credulity, or Incredulity, is most dangerous, or blamable." (7)
He wants to present the benefits of both.
"It must be acknowledged in general, that no Science, or Contemplation doth afford more wonders, and more abstract from all materiality, (Theology being excepted) than the Mathematics, or Mathematical conclusions." (24)
He sees the tremendous draw of mathematics to replace theology. . .
"I hope, then, it will not be required, that Divinity shall be tried by the Mathematics, and made subservient them; which yet the temper of some men of this age doth seem to threaten, who scares will allow anything else, worthy a man's study; and then, what need of Universities."
The Universities then focused on Theology and the ancients, not mathematics. Casaubon was correct, the trust, even worship of mathematics, is a dominate force in the present. Einstein is the new saint and intellectual ability is key to political respect, not morality.
Casaubon went on to other themes. I attempted to follow them, but the problem of old spelling, no paragraphs, convoluted sentences, obscure references was to much. I gave up.
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Credulity and Incredulity in Things Natural Civil and Divine Classic Reprint Meric Casaubon 9781331687955 Books Reviews
Casaubon writes this in 1668 when faith in science is replacing faith in God.
He does not just defend Christianity, he also defends the Greek and Latin ancients.
Is faith in reason a valid choice?
Is any belief correct if it claims religion?
Is any belief correct if it claims reason?
"From ungrounded belief, gross superstition, by which true religion is not a little infected and adulterated, hath proceeded but, on the contrary right down Athesim (whether openly proffered, or palliated, as the fashion is) by which all sense of piety, all sense of immortality, being taken away, and nothing left to man, but what is common to bruts, (since that reason, confined to things sensible and perishable, is little better than sense, and sense, in bruts, is by many deemed, and called reason) man may truly be said, to be metamorphed into another creature." (2)
Casaubon attacks "superstition" as destroying faith, that is, unfounded and foolish religious fables. On the other hand, not to believe in any future life, only material and nothing spiritual, makes man equal to animals. And reason, only based on observation, is then really just "sense" or a reaction to the visible.
This is what happened to Locke's empiricism. It grew into a "faith" in feeling and personal interpretation of reality.
Which side does Casaubon support? He answers
"neither indeed is it absolutely determinable, which of the two, Credulity, or Incredulity, is most dangerous, or blamable." (7)
He wants to present the benefits of both.
"It must be acknowledged in general, that no Science, or Contemplation doth afford more wonders, and more abstract from all materiality, (Theology being excepted) than the Mathematics, or Mathematical conclusions." (24)
He sees the tremendous draw of mathematics to replace theology. . .
"I hope, then, it will not be required, that Divinity shall be tried by the Mathematics, and made subservient them; which yet the temper of some men of this age doth seem to threaten, who scares will allow anything else, worthy a man's study; and then, what need of Universities."
The Universities then focused on Theology and the ancients, not mathematics. Casaubon was correct, the trust, even worship of mathematics, is a dominate force in the present. Einstein is the new saint and intellectual ability is key to political respect, not morality.
Casaubon went on to other themes. I attempted to follow them, but the problem of old spelling, no paragraphs, convoluted sentences, obscure references was to much. I gave up.
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