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A Phenomenological Interpretation Of Religion Via Pre-Socratic Thinking, Angus Brook Jul 2015

A Phenomenological Interpretation Of Religion Via Pre-Socratic Thinking, Angus Brook

Angus Brook

What is religion? What does the concept of religion mean? Today, the word ‘religion’ appears everywhere; a seemingly all pervasive notion associated with a vast array of phenomena, including: war, terrorism, politics, science fiction, morality, and of course, with delusion and irrationality. However, what religion is, or what it means, remains a highly contested matter. It will be the aim of this paper to offer an interpretation of the meaning of the concept of religion by using just one of many philosophical ways of approaching religion, namely; phenomenology as ontology. The paper will focus upon the remaining fragments of three …