The tennis people and golf people at my club barely interact, socially.
In some cases, though, a wife will be in the first group and a husband in the second.
The inverse is far less frequent.
I'm not sure why.
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The tennis people and golf people at my club barely interact, socially.
In some cases, though, a wife will be in the first group and a husband in the second.
The inverse is far less frequent.
I'm not sure why.
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Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
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The underlying tenet of Plato is a transcendental truth.
Platonism, neoplatonism, Transcendentalism, Stoicism, Confucianism, Daoism to name a few. Immanuel Kant and Soren Kierkegaard certainly considered a higher truth or a divine reality within reach of the human experience.
^ Many philosophical and intellectual traditions and philosophers subscribe to this.Transcendent (adjective) - Beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience.
Example: ‘the search for a transcendent level of knowledge’
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/transcendent
On the flipside, the logical positivists and the empiricists are the intellectual traditions which assert all human knowlege and experience is limited to sensory perception.
Kant definitely thought there was knowledge and truth which were beyond human reason and cognition, but I won't nitpick as to whether or not that would be considered a transcendent reality
Here is another philosophical tradition which definitely starts with the premise of an eternal transcendent truth:
Chinese Philosophy
Dao
Dao is a philosophical concept that is multifaceted and has several interpretations. The most profound interpretation is that of the Cosmic Dao, the Way of the cosmos, which is evident in nature (tian).
Encyclopedia Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/topic/dao
That is about 180 degrees opposite from what I have read and heard about Kant, but we will have to disagree on that.
More broadly, my original point is no longer in dispute: there are Eastern and Western philosophical traditions which start with a premise that there is a transcendent truth, as defined in post 140.
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