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Wiki MarkupIf Hartshorne is right, as I believe he is, that "\[o\]nly religion and philosophy can give human life a human meaning" ("The Ethics of Contributionism": 106 f.), then, surely, it must be "philosophy," not merely "metaphysics," that becomes necessary as and when, with the development of science and critical r~ctionreflection, "myth" is no longer able to perform its most essential function. The choice, in other words, is not, as Hartshorne says, between myth and metaphysics, but between myth and philosophy ("Hartshorne on Religion and Metaphysics": 1b).

5 February 1998

Actually, Hartshorne is wrong (and I alll am wrong in believing him right\!) insofar as religion and philosophy do not give human life a hUlllan human meaning, except in the sense that they explicate, or re-present, what really does give human life a hUlllan human meaning -naillely- namely, things as they really are, in their structure in theillselves themselves as well as in their meaning for us.

3 May 2009