Daniel, everyone, J C makes an interesting point and challenge. Can western secular philosophy divorce itself completely from the supernatural? Can nearly 4,000 years of philosophical terms and definitions be rewritten to erase concepts of the metaphysical embedded in its core? Things unbelievable and non-existent irritating Empirical-rational thought? Why is it necessary in western philosophy to even entertain the concept of God?
I personally have a feeling that rationalism and metaphysics in western thought are like an estranged couple living together. They are comfortable enough with each other to not want a divorce. They enjoy their squabbles over who’s wrong and who’s right. In fact, they so often identify themselves by what they aren’t and what they don’t believe that without the other their whole existence would lose its frame of identity. A dialectical reasoning. The thesis needs its antithesis, without which it can’t answer the question “who am I?” Is it possible to completely erase god from the discussion? Maybe we don’t really want to. Anyone?
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