I recently had a long discussion with someone I know and respect regarding hashkofa issues
Over and over the issue was "well that approach doesn't inspire me."
In other words truth and facts are not so important because if it inspires it must be true!
In fact for many of the issues that I find are important today - the course of action is largely decided - both by the masses and gedolim - by whether the path is inspiring or will cause a loss of inspiration.
Who decides truth?
ReplyDeleteEg computer codes are false, according to majority of scientists, but also inspiring and effective tools to bring people back.
See Rav Shagar, the chapter "Religion is a Team Sport" in Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind", and "Homo Sapiens" by Yuval Harari.
ReplyDeleteThis is well understood. The number of individuals who can motivate themselves when they're not inspired because they understand the importance of the task is very small.
ReplyDeleteIf you reverse engineer this concept, it undoes the Kuzari principle. You are claiming people are a more likely to accept something if it's inspiring than if it's true.
ReplyDeleteKuzari principle says that the fact that people accepted something means that something must be true. Why? Perhaps it was just inspiring.
nope!
ReplyDeleteYou are really obsessed with the Kuzari principle
Spoken like a true post modern pundit
ReplyDeletehaha
ReplyDeleteyes, I have several of these obsessions
Can you share with us one or two examples of what you intended in terms of Truth vs inspiration
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