By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
The belief that faith goes beyond belief is one of the beliefs that faith goes beyond-somewhat as the truth that self-understanding goes beyond assenting to general truths is itself a general truth (d. NTM: 116: U[S]tatements expressing [the existentialist understanding of human being] have the meaning of timeless truths and, insofar as they are to the point, can be valid as such. But existentialist analysis points beyond itself, so to spe~ in that it shows (and this, too, would be a 'timele~s truth') that existential self-understanding takes place only as my own particular self-understanding in existential decision.").
3 February 2002
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