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Malena asked

What do you think about religion in philosophy, should it be included?

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It depends what kind of religion and what kind of philosophy. More scientific and logical philosophy
has little truck with religion. More metaphysical philosophy, treating of essence and existence, can
scarcely avoid philosophy in the Western tradition given that the Most High defined Himself to our
basic Lawgiver, Moses, as "I am Who I am" (Exodus3:14). Henceforth if we are thinking in the realm
of ontology (and if we are not, are we really thinking, except in a weak sense?) then we are bound
also to be thinking about God. This of course includes atheism. Thinking about the absence of God,
or in the absence of God, is no less religious — as the greatest atheistic thinkers have (despite
themselves) proven.

Matthew Del Nevo

www.sicetnon.com