So I Have This Theory...

A year ago, I took a class called Philosophy of Religion. For the final paper in the class, I wrote a paper that compared Sigmund Freud's Future of An Illusion and Karl Barth's The Word of God and the Word of Man. This paper spawned an idea for me. I began a theory about theory. I argued that Freud's explaination of religion as an illusion and Barth's explaination of religion as an explaination of the infinite are not much different. What gave one explaination the edge was its ability to be adapted to different facets of life, and its ability to avoid confrontation with other elements of life. To expound upon this, one has to discuss the structuring of knowledge and how a theory can maintain its integerity while being assimilated into a person's understanding, or structure of knowledge. Epistemology becomes a large factor in the understanding of this theory at this point, and it becomes the difficult task of defining key terms, and establishing an agreement of what is or is not real, or known. That will have to wait for my next opportunity to blog.