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26.3.25

You cannot eat an egg, or drink a glass of water without Faith.Religious fanaticism and secular fanaticism just do not work. But to find the middle ground is just as hard.

Georg Hamann quoted Hume that one cannot eat an egg, or drink a glass of water without faith. [You have to believe it is of benefit before actually trying it. Maybe it was tampered with?] {He tried to wean Kant away from the Enlightenment. ) This failed to convince Kant, but it does show that all experience starts with faith. Kant was not convinced. Hegel tried to reconcile faith and reasoning in the Phenomenology {and later in all subsequent writings which are a reformulation of Plotinus ‘approach to Plato with Aristotle integrated in the system.}. Hegel in the meantime struggling even for a loaf of bread eventually rose up to super stardom, until that was cancelled by Schelling. In the meantime, the importance of faith and reason has never been diminished and still remains a vital point in any balanced and sane human being.However, Leonard Nelson and Kelley Ross developed an idea of non-intuitive immediate knowledge. All reason has to start with unproven faith, axioms that cannot be proven (but can be refuted if enough evidence shows them to be flawed. Religious fanaticism and secular fanaticism just do not work. But to find the middle ground is just as hard. Just to take a middle approach without reason is just as ridiculous as the extremes. You need a valid criterion for the middle