The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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Does it not belong to the very concept of an axial religion to assert or imply that the existential truth that it re-presents is and must be knowable by any human being simply as such?

If it is distinctive of an axial religion that it locates the existential problem, not in any of the so-called boundary situations of human existence, whether social or individual, but in a fundamental self-misunderstanding for which the individual person is responsible, it would seem to follow that the truth it re-presents must indeed have always already been knowable, since otherwise the individual person could not be held accountable for living in falsehood.

1 June 1990; rev. 13 April 2001

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