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May 23, 2010
a sense of limits
For me the word "religion" is a bad word. I would say that my Judaism represents a sense of limits. Jewish thinkers often quote a passage from the Talmud, and it's almost a cliche to quote it, but I still like to do it: it says that it's not up to us to finish the task, but neither we are free not to take it up. For me religion means a sense of human limits. The problem with humanism, as developed by Feuerbach, is that it means the deification of man, and I don't see anything in this century that makes me want to deify man. Like Ben Schwartz, I think that man is the worst god there is.
Hilary Putnam
Posted by amin at May 23, 2010 10:34 AM