Worldview
Our Professor may or may not have mentioned this subject. His classes have a tendency to blur along the edges, so I'm not sure when he talked about his.
"There are more things in heaven and on earth than dreamed of in your philosophies" Hamlet tells Horatio in the play by Shakespeare. To Hamlet (and likely to Shakespeare, but that's another can of worms) the world, just like our class, is blurred around the edges. There is myth and legend and it is not all of it false.
Modern science (and, by relation, philosophy) would like to tell us the opposite: there is much less in the world than dreamed of. It suggest that we ought not to believe something until we can prove it true. One of the most commonly uttered phrases has become "What proof is there?" No longer can we accept the existence of something off the words of one man, or even a group of men. No, today we need properly educated scientest to tell us there is enough proof to believe in what man has known for centuries.
It is the former worldview that allows discoveries, is optomistic, and allows one to read litature as it ought to be read. Imagine trying to read The Lord of the Rings with the continuous assumption that the whole thing is false. It will destroy any chance of enjoying the book, not to mention making the reader a more jaded person.
The same thing applies to the Bible. When you read it as false, you find or invent errors, put all your effort into disproving the book or learning why it is flawed, instead of enjoying it as one of, if not the, best works of literature ever compiled.
"There are more things in heaven and on earth than dreamed of in your philosophies" Hamlet tells Horatio in the play by Shakespeare. To Hamlet (and likely to Shakespeare, but that's another can of worms) the world, just like our class, is blurred around the edges. There is myth and legend and it is not all of it false.
Modern science (and, by relation, philosophy) would like to tell us the opposite: there is much less in the world than dreamed of. It suggest that we ought not to believe something until we can prove it true. One of the most commonly uttered phrases has become "What proof is there?" No longer can we accept the existence of something off the words of one man, or even a group of men. No, today we need properly educated scientest to tell us there is enough proof to believe in what man has known for centuries.
It is the former worldview that allows discoveries, is optomistic, and allows one to read litature as it ought to be read. Imagine trying to read The Lord of the Rings with the continuous assumption that the whole thing is false. It will destroy any chance of enjoying the book, not to mention making the reader a more jaded person.
The same thing applies to the Bible. When you read it as false, you find or invent errors, put all your effort into disproving the book or learning why it is flawed, instead of enjoying it as one of, if not the, best works of literature ever compiled.
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