PHIL-330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Anachronism, Stoicism
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He next defends himself against the possible charge of having presented extreme testimonies of religion: i took these extremer examples as yielding the profounder information. To learn the secrets of any science, we go to expert specialists, even though they may be eccentric persons, and not to commonplace pupils. [p 487] it is, as we might say, a matter of horses for courses. Different types of people need different brands of religion: The writer now reconciles this welcoming of religious diversity with his suggestion of a science of religions. He points out that such a science is not going to be able to decide which religion is preferable. For religion is about the personal: religion, occupying herself with personal destinies and keeping thus in contact with the only absolute realities which we know, must necessarily play an eternal part in human history.
