The Name of God Muller’s and Cassirer’s Linguistic View on Religion

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10.2991/cesses-18.2018.136How to use a DOI?

Keywords

religion; language; mythological thinking

Abstract

Muller believed that religion originated from human’s understanding of the infinite. This capacity for perceiving infinite is latent in the human mind, and this potential germinates in the people’s naming of natural phenomena which are semi-tangible or intangible. "The birth and growth of god is the birth and growth of his name". The development of abstract thinking ability of human has also gradually deepened human's understanding of the concept of divinity. Cassirer believed that when the tension between the human and the object world reached its limit, the tension was released in language and mythological thinking, and language and momentery deities came into being in the process. Language and mythological thinking interweave and promote each other in the process of human understanding, both of which are the starting points of human cultural. The two philosophers held different views on the relationship between language and religion, but they both put human language on an important position in epistemology.

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