首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Religion consists of conscious ideas, hopes, enthusiasms, and objects of worship; it operates by grace and flourishes by prayer.
Religion consists of conscious ideas, hopes, enthusiasms, and objects of worship; it operates by grace and flourishes by prayer.
admin
2013-01-25
78
问题
Religion consists of conscious ideas, hopes, enthusiasms, and objects of worship; it operates by grace and flourishes by prayer. Reason, on the other hand, is a mere principle or potential order, on which indeed we may come to reflect but which exists in us ideally only, without variation or stress of any kind. We conform or do not conform to it; it does not urge or chide us, not call for any emotions on our part other than those naturally aroused by the various objects which it unfolds in their true nature and proportion. Rationality is nothing but a form, an ideal constitution which experience may more or less embody. Religion is a part of experience itself, a mass of sentiments and ideas. The one is an inviolate principle, the other a changing and struggling force. And yet this struggling and changing force of religion seems to direct man toward something eternal. It seems to make for an ultimate harmony within the soul and for an ultimate harmony between the soul and all that the soul depends upon. Religion, in its intent, is a more conscious and direct pursuit of the Life of Reason than is society, science, or art, for these approach and fill out the ideal life tentatively and piecemeal, hardly regarding the foal or caring for the ultimate justification of the instinctive aims.
Nevertheless, we must confess that this religious pursuit of the Life of Reason has been singularly abortive. Those within the pale of each religion may prevail upon themselves, to express satisfaction with its results, thanks to a fond partiality in reading the past and generous draughts of hope for the future ; but any one regarding the various religions at once and comparing their achievements with what reason requires, must feel how terrible is the disappointment which they have one and all prepared for mankind. To confuse intelligence and dislocate sentiment by gratuitous fictions is a short-sighted way of pursuing happiness. Thus religion too often debauches the morality it comes to sanction and impedes the science it ought to fulfill.
Religion pursues rationality through the imagination. When it explains events or assigns causes, it is an imaginative substitute for science. When it gives precepts, insinuates ideals, or remoulds aspiration, it is an imaginative substitute for wisdom-I mean for the deliberate and impartial pursuit of all food. The condition and the aims of life are both represented in religion poetically, but this poetry tends to arrogate to itself literal truth and moral authority, neither of which it possesses. Hence the depth and importance of religion becomes intelligible no less than its contradictions and practical disasters. Its object is the same as that of reason, but its method is to proceed by intuition and by unchecked poetical conceits.
The author states that religion differs from rationality in that ______.
选项
A、it relies on intuition rather than reasoning
B、it is not concerned with the ultimate justification of its instinctive aims
C、it has disappointed mankind
D、it has inspired mankind
答案
D
解析
由文章第1段倒数第2句“. . . religion seems to direct man toward something eternal. . . make for an ultimate harmony within the soul. . . ”可知,宗教不同于理性在于宗教的力量促使人们追求某种永恒的东西,它激起了人类情感,因此D选项说法正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/hJ1O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
FrancoisJacobwrotethat"anageorcultureischaracterizedlessbytheextentofitsknowledgethanbythenatureoftheques
Famehappenedalmostovernightforthe25-year-oldactress,butshehasbecome_____byalltherecentmediaattentionandnowshe
ManydoubtiftheInternet,television,advancedcommunicationsorinstantfoodwillmakeourcountrya____societyanytimesoon.
Stratford-on-Avon,asweallknow,hasonlyoneindustry—WilliamShakespeare—buttherearetwodistinctlyseparateandincreasingl
Duringthepastgeneration,theAmericanmiddle-classfamilythatoncecouldcountonhardworkandfairplaytokeepitselffin
Themayorisawomanwithgreatandthereforedeservesourpoliticalandfinancialsupport.
HenryDavidThoreauusedtoramblethroughthewoodsbeforehewrotehismostfamousbookWalden(1854).
Formostkindsofactivities,alargegroupofpeoplecanaccomplishmoreandhavemorefunthanonepersonalone.Forexample,
Thefactknowntousisthatwar,differentfromwhatmanypeoplebelieveittobe,isnotcompletelyanoutcomeof’humanity".Oth
Asoneworkswithcolorinapracticalorexperimentalway,oneisimpressedbytwoapparentlyunrelatedfacts.Colorasseenis
随机试题
A、Thedifferentopinionsonbeingadoctor.B、Thereasonswhythewomanwantstobeadoctor.C、Thequalificationstobeadocto
某单位共有职工72人,年底考核平均分数为85分。根据考核分数,90分以上的职工评为优秀职工,已知优秀职工的平均分数为92分,其他职工的平均分数是80分,问优秀职工的人数是多少?()
风、雨、雪、雾等复杂气象条件,遇前车速度较低时,应开启前照灯,连续鸣喇叭迅速超越。
急性非淋巴细胞白血病M:型的基因改变是
甲向某基层法院派出法庭起诉,要求本村村民乙返还其借款1000元。该案案情简单,事实清楚,权利义务明确,争议不大,故法庭决定采取简易程序审理该案。由于派出法庭人手不够,法庭只指派一名审判员审理此案,且自审自记。案件审结后,该审判员未公开宣判,只是将加盖了该法
某消费者购买使用的一台洗衣机在天气湿热时不断出现故障直至无法使用,消费者向质量技术监督部门投诉后,经质检所检验证明该产品确有质量问题存在,质量技术监督部门决定对该产品的生产企业进行监督检查。质量技术监督部门委托某质检所对成品进行一次全面完整的性能试验和
某地质考察队对下图所示区域进行地质研究,在Y1、Y2、Y3、Y4处分别钻孔至地下同一水平面。在该水平面上Y2、Y3处取得相同的砂岩,Yl、Y4处取得相同的砾岩,且砂岩的年代比砾岩老。若在Y2处钻30m到达某水平面,则在Y4处钻至该水平面,最可能的深
()获1987年度全国优秀电视剧(第8届)“飞天奖”连续剧特别奖。
已知λ1,λ2,λ3是A的特征值,α1,α2,α3是相应的特征向量且线性无关。证明如果α1+α2+α3仍是A的特征向量,则λ1=λ2=λ3。
JohnandMaryhada(understand)______,buttheyhavemadeupnow.
最新回复
(
0
)