RELS 161 Lecture : Rels 161 B 1.1
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Rels 161 b 1. 1: tradition, beliefs, impact what we think about relationships with the environment and sexuality, like fish in water, so are we surrounded and brought up in ideology. There are 3 ways of knowing: empiricism, rationalism (drawing on concepts that we know and making decisions, intuitive. Critical hermeneutics deriving stuff from the texts, scientific interpretation. Niche once said something along the lines of, courage is not in your convictions, it is in questioning your convictions . *there are different ways of looking at the i"s, because there are different interpretations on. *"j" however has bound information (often bound in a religion) a. k. a. : you can only get so much information from it. The goal here is interdisciplinary research (seeing through as many lenses as possible) The essentialist approach can be used as a way to protects one"s faith from the critique of others because to show sympathy to religious things, to the believer, is to be an essentialist.