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If philosophy is understood as some kind of intellectual activity, then religion is not reduced to such an activity. There are a lot of elements of a different nature there. And it is often these elements that are the main source for what we call religious teachings. Philosophy is used by such teachings as the organon, that is, as a means of expression, comprehension, systematization, apology, and the like. If this organon is removed [as has been tried many times in different religions], there may indeed be a simplification, but it will concern the intellectual elements, and not religion as a whole.
Yes, in religion, everything is simple: a brick on your head – and you are with God in paradise. And to get to the philosophical paradise, you need to pass the Unified State Exam for 999 points, then for many more years it is super reasonable to answer all sorts of questions, then write a long abstruse dissertation on the topic ” Why does a person complicate everything?”
I don't think so. These are simply different areas of human knowledge with different tasks that overlap in places. Like physics and chemistry.
The word “religion” comes from the Latin word “religare” – “reunite”. That is, the task of religion is to connect God and man, religion helps to communicate with Him.
And the word “philosophy” comes from the Greek “philosophy” – “love of wisdom”. That is, the task of philosophy is to know the world, man, society, God, and morality. Just because a person likes to learn, he likes wisdom.
With respect to the entire body of philosophical knowledge, any religion will be a simplified philosophy, since in fact it is only dogmatized knowledge. Philosophy is easily able to include any religion and will not be destroyed as a result, but religion is not.
Philosophy is a personal model of a person's world or a set of such personal models of the world from different people. Claims to replace religion or develop religion. There are a huge number of different philosophies, some of them are close to the truth, some are far from it.
You can't say that so. Philosophy is about the abstract, religion is about the otherworldly concrete, which cannot be properly tested, you can only take on faith. Of course, you can ritualize philosophy and get a religion (Taoism) or you can create a religious philosophy – that is, based on religion (Lossky, Berdyaev, etc.).
Philosophy refers to science, even if it is very extensive. The goal of philosophy is to know the world. Religions are different. They do not serve the same purpose. Moral religions are aimed at preserving and improving human morality. Religions do not have the goal of knowing the world.
Religion is a simplified Belief.
There are a number of questions that cannot be answered based on experience. Both personal and human experience. Basically impossible.
But most people are more or less concerned about these questions, and most of them accept some answers for themselves. This is the Faith of a particular person.
Religion offers a ready – made set of answers packed in mythology and equipped with rituals. Sort of like a set meal. Take it all and don't worry about the choice.
Rather, religion is a complicated philosophy.. For that matter. Because spiritual knowledge encompasses the structure of everything that exists. This is the knowledge of the Absolute-the original cause of everything and, accordingly, of its consequences. Knowledge of religion is more global and more complex. It is difficult, among other things, because to really understand it, you need to change yourself, clear your mind, and this requires effort and time. Philosophy, especially now, is speculative in many ways, philosophers are more likely to invent than engage in knowledge of reality. Religion is concerned with reality, not speculation. The purpose of religion is to help a person: to realize themselves and God and eventually return to God in the spiritual world (=achieve liberation), and not “just have a nice time thinking” or something like that…
religion is the basis of any philosophy without religion there can be no philosophy … From the beginning, the subject of discussion appears, then different directions for this, which is philosophy
Religion refers to the relationship of the Creator to His creatures. And people think that if the creations fulfill the Creator's desire, then He will pay them well for it. This is why the Creator created them, to enable them to work and not be ashamed of their alms bread. As they say: “Work today, and tomorrow you will get a reward for it. In this world, we work, and in the next world, a person only needs to understand whether it is worth it to work in order to someday, no one knows when, get a reward – or leave this job? Maybe I should work for some other purpose that will bring me pleasure and reward right now? Why should I work for a reward in the next world?And so people are divided-into religious and secular. Secular people want to be paid for their work in this world here and now. And religious people, both by virtue of their upbringing and according to egoistic calculations, have a more distant aim – in the future world.we get rewarded.” This is how it seems to a person on the surface, and besides, if I am on good terms with the Creator, doing what He has ordered me to do, then I and my children will also be happy in this world – the Creator will preserve us. And this whole system of relations between man and the Creator is called religion. But we have a sense of something unknown and incomprehensible to us, and we can't fill this void with anything. Man differs from an animal in that he feels his neighbor, feels time and space. And so he has a problem about the past, present, and future. He has Kelim in which he feels empty, not knowing how to fill them. He does not know how to connect himself with these concepts, which are called “yesterday”, “today” and”tomorrow”. “Tomorrow” is such an empty space that we need to fill in. We have to do something about this emptiness – it is inherent in us from birth.So religion comes along and says, ” My dear fellow, just work and this void will be filled! We promise you that. You will die, and your soul will rise, and there you will feel that you are getting a filling for this empty space.” Or there are people who, with the help of society and the environment, can convince themselves that this is just a psychological problem, and we need to understand that there is nothing else but this life, and only in this world do we live and end our lives. That's all. Like all animals – so what? After all, no one has actually seen the other world. And so there are all the religions that determine how to work to get a reward, and what that reward will be.We see the world divided into three main religions, because there are three lines in the perception of reality. And everything else is more related to beliefs or philosophies – to different ways of perceiving reality. These are the Eastern teachings – in China, Japan, India. You can't call them genuine religions. The main religions that humanity has invented for itself to answer and calm the question about the meaning of its existence: “Why do I exist? What will happen to me tomorrow? Who controls me? Everything is determined only by desire, because it is the material of creation. But the greatest desire that awakens in a person is the thirst for knowledge, comprehension. As long as this desire is not awakened in a person with all its force, he can somehow be satisfied with religion, various beliefs, meditations. But we are moving forward in our development, and as a result, the desire to know will be revealed in a person, as they say: “Know thy Creator” – in a clear feeling, absolutely real.
I think that philosophy, as a science, is not directly related to philosophy in religion.
If you look at the meaning of the word “love of wisdom”, then you need to separate the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God.
What's the difference?
The difference is that human wisdom is fake wisdom, false wisdom. But the wisdom of God is real.
Why?
Because God never lies, and people lie all the time.
Human reason is stupidity, not reason, because it damages everything it touches.
A person is not capable of doing reasonable things without damage. One thing heals, and the other cripples – this is not reason, but stupidity.
But people don't want to admit their mistakes. The property of false reason (stupidity) is to find any excuses to shift your guilt to someone else.
With such a “love of wisdom”, there is no real wisdom to be found.
Wisdom is the rejection of all lies.
And people are so mired in lies that they even think slyly (i.e. falsely).
Religion also implies the rejection of lies, if it really is not a fake religion.
That is, philosophy, like the love of wisdom – this is religion-the practice of rejecting all lies.
And philosophy, as only a verbal search for truth, without real practice, or as a study of the views of theorists on various issues, is just beating around the bush, without touching real, living wisdom.
This, by the way, is not a statement that religious philosophy is a real philosophy.
If religion can be fake, then religious philosophy can also be fake.
You need to learn to distinguish between fakes, imitations and honest actions.
Honesty can also be fake.
But the truth of truth is kin.
And true philosophy, like true religion, necessarily leads to wisdom – to the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and to fulfill the truth in their actions.
And, therefore, true philosophy and true religion are one and the same thing.
No. Philosophy has nothing to do with religion, but only looks at it through the keyhole. Religion is the foundation of the whole life of a believer, the motive of his every action. The reasoning of a religious person is always based on the experience of his life, connected with his experiences and obtained by hard daily work to implement his religious beliefs. These are materials with proofs.
Philosophy is a rant about what you look at from the outside and partly fantasize about.
Yes, some philosophical concepts and ideas are used by representatives of religious beliefs in order to better explain their experience to others. However, it is necessary to jump out of philosophy and go to practice in order to move on to religion. It is absolutely impossible to simplify the philosophy in the way you described in your question.