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The article concerns the phenomenon of religion. Religious behavior is thought to be
an action based on unjustified opinions. Such actions are wrong but there are some
exceptions. The exceptional actions are called ‘superrational’, unjustified opinions they
are based on are called ‘regulative’ and facts described in them ‘superreal’. The author
gives a typology of acting in this way. The types go as follows: (1) putting scientific
hypotheses, (2) practical pressure, (3) the will of no investigation, (4) the will to regard
only some given sources of truth, (5) the will not to know, (6) symbolic or metaphorical
behavior (religious included). The latter is described within a wider anthropological
and evolutionary context. The author claims that irrationality of religious beliefs in
respect to their content does not mean that actions based on them are irrational, but the
question is whether a given religious practice fulfills the emotional needs of a particular
person. From the evolutionary point of view, it is important to have emotionally stable
biological units even if, in order to obtain this, one has to take fiction for reality with
reference to facts of little importance for life.
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