So far as I know, Jürgen Habermas set the ball rolling. In 2008 he wrote a celebrated essay, ‘An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age.’ The thrust of what he had to say first occurred to him after he had attended a memorial service for Max Frisch, the Swiss author and playwright, which was held in St. Peter’s Church in Zurich as long ago as April 9, 1991. The service began with Karin Pilliod, Frisch’s partner, reading out a brief declaration written by the deceased. It stated, among other things: ‘We let our nearest speak, and without an “amen”. I am grateful to the ministers of St. Peter’s in Zurich … for their permission to place the coffin in the church during our memorial service. The ashes will be strewn somewhere.’ Two friends spoke but there was no priest and no blessing. The mourners were made up mostly of people who had little time for church and religion. Frisch himself had drawn up the menu for the meal that followed.
The Age of Nothing
Is there something missing in our lives?
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Abraham Joseph 2 July 2017
A typical ' scholastic essay', with so many quotes and references, 'a cooking up of evidence to prove the theory already in hand' ( what is inverted comas, by Dr.Whitefield)
The sense of 'something is missing' is not exclusive to men in life,but it troubles open minded and deep searching Scientists too; the 'missing link' is famous.- - -they all feel, there exists a unified theory, that would link all the known forms of energies one day!
This lingering 'sense' is the work of man's not yet recognized 'hidden sense organ of Reason'; we have it, but we have not yet recognized it! When Science opens up one day, it will revolutionalize
our theory of knowledge! Love to share here,two blogs; one how inadequate our knowledge of Logic and Reason, and the next, why we should get ready to accept the 'sense organ' role of our faculty of Reason: http://thesparkleofhumanreason.blogspot.in/2016/07/why-our-understanding-of-logic-needs.html
http://philosopherskorner.blogspot.in/
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