Re: Rumsfeld

I don’t think you missed anything. Other people, me including, are simply hoping that elimination of writing intensive part from the course will also eliminate blogs.

The reading for this coming class, I should admit, was extremely difficult, at least for me; thus, I am hoping for its further clarification during the class, especially the first part. All I understand from it is that philosophy is trying to justify religion, but doing so, it puts religion into inferior position from the very beginning—not a very fair justification. To validate a concept, it should be put on the neutral level that will remove any subjective opinion. Then, the author points out that the essence of religion is pure faith, guidance and transformation (comparing to the philosophy, which spirit is of free inquiry). It can change people’s characters, if its truth revealed is constantly followed. Philosophy and religion are not opposed to each other; they are part of the same reality, though look at it from different perspectives. I know, it is not a very massive summary of such a huge reading, but it was really complicated!

And one more thing, professor’s name is Omer, not Emir, or  am I missing out something?