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I was re-reading Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents" out of utter bordom tonight and was struck by a passage in section one directly related to Yahzi's post on art and religion. Freud quotes Goethe in this manner:
He who has Science and has Art
Religion too has he;
Who has not Science, has not Art
Let him religious be!
Freud, an open atheist (and a Nietzche-ite IMO), then proceeds to compliment Goethe in so many words for placing religion right up with the two great accomplishments of man, namely science and art. He then proceeds to refer to religion, like art, as a "substitute gratification" of the pleasure principal.
Still, Freud contends in the end that religion, unlike science and art provides man with structural purpose in the universe, which I found interesting. Taking that conclusion, and provided I'm not reading too much into him, he seems to agree with Goethe that...
1) Science needs Art to grasp the significance of religion
2) Religion doesn't particularly need science or art, and often becomes the default for people capable of neither
I thought the section complemented Yahzi's posts very well. So I spent five minutes to relay them... back to trolling
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He who has Science and has Art
Religion too has he;
Who has not Science, has not Art
Let him religious be!
Freud, an open atheist (and a Nietzche-ite IMO), then proceeds to compliment Goethe in so many words for placing religion right up with the two great accomplishments of man, namely science and art. He then proceeds to refer to religion, like art, as a "substitute gratification" of the pleasure principal.
Still, Freud contends in the end that religion, unlike science and art provides man with structural purpose in the universe, which I found interesting. Taking that conclusion, and provided I'm not reading too much into him, he seems to agree with Goethe that...
1) Science needs Art to grasp the significance of religion
2) Religion doesn't particularly need science or art, and often becomes the default for people capable of neither
I thought the section complemented Yahzi's posts very well. So I spent five minutes to relay them... back to trolling
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