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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Reality, Thinking, Impact

  "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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• 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.

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  Thinking, Years, Taught Us

  "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.

  George Pattison

  Thoughtful, Technology, Thinking

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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.

  George Pattison

  Party, Political, Church

  "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.

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  Past, Ideas, Long

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

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