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Professor Wisdom holds that the reference to be found in many religious beliefs to what lies beyond the world and transcends the senses is misleading. Religious beliefs speak and, indeed, can only speak about this world, the world we know by means of the senses. The religious believer is himself misled when he describes the God he believes in as transcendent. What gives content to his beliefs is how certain things stand in this world. To appreciate these and so to embrace the beliefs in question is for a person to change in himself, to come into contact with something that lies within him. Here lies the spiritual aspect of the content of religious beliefs.
Originally published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. V, no. 4 (December 1975).
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© 1981 İlham Dilman
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Dilman, İ. (1981). Wisdom II: Metaphysical and Religious Transcendence. In: Studies in Language and Reason. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05312-4_7
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