The Illusion of Agency as a Mark of Ultimacy
This essay proposes that action unaccompanied by the usual feeling of conscious agency constitutes a "mark of ultimacy." Characteristically religious statements of "agentless action" find support in social psychological and cognitive scientific research that calls into question t...
| Published in: | Open theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018
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| In: |
Open theology
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| Further subjects: | B
Free Will
B Meister Eckhart B limitexperience B Ramana Maharshi B Wegner B Luther B New Atheism B Erasmus |
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| Summary: | This essay proposes that action unaccompanied by the usual feeling of conscious agency constitutes a "mark of ultimacy." Characteristically religious statements of "agentless action" find support in social psychological and cognitive scientific research that calls into question the intuitive belief that conscious thought causes action. An awareness of the limits of our powers of will lies at the the core of those limit experiences that provide the context for the meaningfulness of religious language. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-6579 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Open theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/opth-2018-0029 |