George Pattison Quotes

• Es extraño que en una época en la que nos enorgullecemos de nuestra independencia de pensamiento nos sometamos dócilmente y sin más preguntas a la declaración de un filósofo del siglo XIX claramente desequilibrado de que ¡Dios ha muerto! Es una desfachatez, por supuesto, y rara vez se sale de la lectura de Nietzsche sin aprender algo nuevo y significativo. Desde luego, es MUCHO más inquietante para la fe que cualquier ateo contemporáneo que yo conozca.

  George Pattison

  Atheist, Reading, Pride

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.

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  Meaningful, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!

  George Pattison

  Unique, Player, Views

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Cuando estoy en la mesa de operaciones, me alegra que el cirujano me trate como a una máquina, pero en el momento en que vuelvo a la consciencia tengo otras necesidades y aspiraciones que deben ser reconocidas. No estamos aquí sólo para sobrevivir o prolongar nuestra vida individual o de especie, sino para hacer algo aparentemente más difícil, para lo que he utilizado palabras y frases como "amor" y "Reino de Dios".

  George Pattison

  Like Love, Needs, Phrases

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.

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  Thoughtful, Technology, Thinking

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• Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.

  George Pattison

  Keys, Political, Atheism

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political liberalization, he attacked the Church to demonstrate to old Party members that he hadn't lost it.

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  Party, Political, Church

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• No estoy seguro de "ser" un filósofo, pero me ocupo de cuestiones que generalmente se consideran filosóficas, como el carácter de la existencia humana y lo que constituye una buena vida humana.

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  Philosophical, Character, Philosopher

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.

  George Pattison

  Buddhist, Issues, Choices

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckhart accords with the real medieval teacher of that name, but there are certainly images in his work that help us work our way past several of the aporia with which we're confronted in our attempts to think about God.

  George Pattison

  Teacher, Real, Past

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have to be equated with a destructive nihilism but with the experience of unity and participation - whilst resisting the tendency of objectifying metaphysics to claim that we can in some way 'know' that this experienced unity is really the truth of how things are, i.e., reveals being itself.

  George Pattison

  School, Kyoto, Unity

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.

  George Pattison

  Thinking, Years, Taught Us

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is, beings who need our help. Buddhism, not wrongly, extends this to 'all sentient beings'.

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  Buddhism, Needs, Care

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.

  George Pattison

  Reality, Thinking, Impact

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.

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  Philosophical, Persistence, Past

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• Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.

  George Pattison

  Strong, Growing Up, War

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Y tal vez esto tenga que ver con lo que percibo como un alejamiento de la idea de la religión como algo relacionado con la conservación de una determinada herencia del pasado hacia la religión como algo que tiene que ver con cómo nos orientamos hacia el futuro, hacia todo lo que verdaderamente anhelamos, hacia la esperanza.

  George Pattison

  Past, Ideas, Long

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

  George Pattison

  Teenage, Moving, Loss

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.

  George Pattison

  Cfs, Justice, Liberty

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and is not and cannot be the object of any detached 'scientific' contemplation. Heidegger's critique of onto-theology is also driving a wedge between speaking of God and the aims of science - not so as to get rid of God but rather to free God from a false objectification.

  George Pattison

  Kingdoms, Objectification, Doe

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be a natural impulse in human thinking but it can also lead to confusions. Religious believers mostly want to see God as the epitome of what is most really real and in some non-theistic contexts, people talk simply of 'Isness'.

  George Pattison

  Religioso, Real, Pensamiento

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Pero, ¿por qué debería interesarle a una persona religiosa una obra como la de Heidegger, que muchos consideran el epítome del nihilismo? Para empezar, porque Heidegger nos obliga, como pocos filósofos, a reflexionar sobre la gravedad y el carácter global de nuestra mortalidad.

  George Pattison

  Religious, Thinking, Nihilism

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• La vida religiosa trata de algo real en la experiencia humana que no está constreñido por lo que Wittgenstein llamó 'todo lo que es el caso'. En este sentido, Heidegger no está simplemente "equivocado"; sólo nos pide, como hacen casi siempre los filósofos, que pensemos más detenidamente en lo que decimos.

  George Pattison

  Religioso, Real, Pensamiento

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Positively, he [Heidegger] shows that the prospect of death doesn't of itself destroy all possibilities of meaning but calls instead for these to be relocated from fantasies about a future post-mortem life. However, I don't think he does enough in this work to show that this relocation has - I believe - a primarily ethical character (in Levinas's sense of 'ethical').

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  Creer, Carácter, Pensar

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• Parece que el mero hecho de existir, de que haya algo en lugar de nada, ya inspira un asombro parecido al de la religión. Pero -como en mi comentario sobre el Reino de Dios en la última respuesta- las tradiciones judía y cristiana también están dispuestas a cuestionar lo que "es" en aras de lo que podría ser.

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  Christian, Challenges, Inspire

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