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Is it attainable to be a dedicated Christian and a rock big name? Can political activists make strong track? Do highly winning rock bands particularly care approximately AIDS and poverty in Africa, or is it simply one other image-enhancing schtick? U2 and Philosophy ponders those and different seeming dichotomies within the occupation of the Irish supergroup. For over twenty years, U2 has been one of many greatest acts in rock tune. They’ve produced over a dozen platinum and multiplatinum documents and gained 15 Grammy Awards. Critics in all places have praised the band’s considerate, complicated lyrics and the artistry in their tune. while, Bono, the group’s lead singer, has devoted himself to political and social reasons, blurring the road among rock celebrity and revered statesman. providing clean perception into the band’s tune and activism, those thought-provoking essays permits enthusiasts to find philosophy throughout the eyes of U2, and rediscover U2 throughout the eyes of philosophers.
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Learn from those who have been bound like you, and who now wager all they have. They are people who know the road you want to follow and have been cured of the affliction of which you want to be cured. Follow the way by which they began: by behaving just as if they believed, taking holy water, having masses said, etc. That will make you believe quite naturally, and according to your animal reactions. (Pensées, §680) Faith is, then, the condition of one who has acquired the skills of religious living, and thus has the dispositions to feel and act appropriately in the world that appears when one has those skills.
The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced of the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. ”14 The confirmation and conviction come, in other words, through one’s success in living in the world in the way indicated by faith. ”15 “Your Love Is Teaching Me How to Kneel”: Love and Existential Faith The existential Christian thus argues that faith is confirmed if it turns out that it is only the Christian who, through the saving grace of Christ, is able to resolve her despair.
As Pascal put it: What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction! ” If we are essentially dual in this way, then any attempt to overcome one side in favor of the other inevitably ends in despair. According to Pascal, a person’s highest achievement was not to deny or overcome this contradiction—by getting rid of half the self—but to live in such a way as to fully express the tension of the contradiction. “We do not display greatness by going to one extreme,” he said, “but in touching both [extremes] at once, and filling all the intervening space” (Pensées, § 353).