根本的问题是科学家们贬低了意义,他宣称,我们最深刻的感情不仅仅是适应,然后先天决定于人类的基因中。如果你把人简单地归结为一大团细胞,你就一同抹掉了意愿,责任,自由和感情。与此相反,存在的真正意义在于一个人与其他人,地球还有上帝的关系中。他认为面孔是意义,关系和认同等概念的范例。他说,面孔是每一个人的外在形式和内在内容的形象,人类通过注视面孔把对方看成是一个意志的主体而不是一个物件。
That Mr Scruton simply asserts the existence of God may be regarded as a fault here, andhis prose is dense and often hard going. But he is at least serious and thoughtful. Bycontrast, Mr de Botton seems to get dafter with each turn of the page. Arguing that religioncan bind people together to help guard against loneliness, he concludes that the Mass shouldbe used as a model for his pastiche Agape Restaurant, with its own liturgy and an annualorgy . Mr Scruton,who frets that people have become indifferent to beauty and smut, argues that it is becausethey confuse agape and eros that they objectify each other and devalue love in a cycle of ever-expandingheartlessness.
诚然,Scruton先生在书中轻易地断言上帝的存在是有问题的,而且他的文字厚重而时常难于阅读。但是它至少是严肃且深思熟虑的。相比之下,de Botton先生则看起来每翻一页都变愚钝了一点。他认为宗教可以把人联结起来以抵御寂寞和孤独,然后总结道,弥撒应该用来作为他的混合版本的友爱餐厅的范例,在这样的弥撒中,不仅有其自身的礼仪,还包括一年一度的纵欲狂欢。Scruton先生一直担心人们对美和淫秽之间的区别漠不关心,他认为,就是因为人们弄混了agape和eros才导致他们互相疏离物化,然后在无休止地变得无情无义中贬低着爱情。
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