Well, It's Friday and I'm stuffed. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. On to classwork now. We had Freud as our topic and besides talking about his crazy cocaine habits, we also talked about his views on religion. According to Hecht, Freud who's views are very close to Schopenhauer's, considered religion to be infantile and hoped that humanity would mature out of them. Freud also seems to come of as arrogant much like Schopenhauer did. However Freud does make some interesting points. Freud suggests that religion is an error but a willful error.
Our factual question was:
The Future of an Illusion was loosely based on who's dialogue?
A. Plato's
B. Schopenhauer's
C. Kant's
D. Confucius
and our discussion question was:
Do you think that fear of community rebuke has anything to do with people not rejecting religion?
I definitely think people's fear of a rebuke from their community/family/peers has a lot to do with people accepting religion blindly. The band wagon effect is very strong, as well as the desire to feel like you're a part of something. No one likes to feel alienated and alone. We can see strong examples of the bandwagon effect from events as small as football championships to the Holocaust. People will most often comply with the majority mentality even if it's wrong.
ReplyDeleteYes I think that there is a small percentage of people that fear being alienated by their circle if they reject religion. This question coincides with our current topic of the Cold War. During this period it was thought that if you didn't believe in God than you were a Communist, which is completely ridiculous. However, this view forced people to go along with the majority of the time, so they wouldn't be falsely labeled as a Communist.
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