Tuesday, February 3, 2015
While reading in Kenneth Burke today, I read the following:
When Christ said “I am the way” (hodos), we could translate, “I am the act,” or more fully, “I
represent a system, or synthesis, of the right acts.” Tao and yoga are similar
words for act. And we see how readily act in this sense can overlap upon agency
when we consider our ordinary attitude towards the scientific method (met-hodos) which we think of
pragmatically, not as a way of life, or act
of being, but as a means of doing.
(GoM 15)
This led me to consider the term “method” from its
etymological origins in the Greek. Met means “following” while hodos means “a way.”
If we look at a religion, then, as a hodos, a “way” for acting, and being, and living, then we see how
thoroughly the “scientific method” is a religion.
We also see a way for addressing the teachings of Jesus
Christ as a “method” of its own, a method for acting and doing and being, and
how it can be worked into a critical method (“way of going”).
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