Bibliography: BYBTTWD2

key	BYBTTWD2
title	The Conceptual in Human Nature : Learning to Perceive the World
author	Filson, Gerald
authority control	Gerald Filson
item type	Journal article
publication year	2015
date	2015
publication title	The Bahá'í Studies Review
abstract note	Human beings are conceptual in ways unique to our species, different in kind from animal rationality. Our conceptual capacity is formed by culture and language where language plays a central role in how we experience the world. The role of language, especially spiritual or religious language, can inform our perception of the world in ways that represent genuine 'spiritual perception' of the material, social and spiritual dimensions of reality. Human beings' conceptual capabilities are fallible, even in how we use perception as a capacity for knowing the world. Conditions in modernity have increased our vulnerability to fallibility. Consequently, collective exercise of our conceptual capacities in deliberation and coordinated assessments of reality are more necessary than ever. Science and religion are influential models of how collective deliberation, or consultation, enhances our conceptual capabilities and the ways in which perception takes in a world that is both material and spiritual.
pages	123-149
volume	21
language	English
manual tags	SPIRITUALITY; PERCEPTION; HUMANITY; LANGUAGE