ABSTRACT
The author develops the concept of 'way' in accordance with his own Shinto faith. In Confucian usage, the Dao refers to the 'way' of ethical teachings that humans should follow, as laid down by sages and others. In Daoism, the Dao is the unproduced producer from which all appearances derive, and the primordial source of order; to live in accord with the Dao constitutes the 'way' to realize the natural order. In his Position Statement, Imran Aijaz discusses the rational justification of Islamic belief, where the constitution of the religion of Islam is said to lie along three axes: practice, faith, and the perfection of faith. Drob moreover reinforces the intimate connection between language and the world, as rooted in the Talmud. This idea has been one of the major currents in modern western philosophical thought, which, as Drob mentions, has given great attention to the relation between 'representing' and 'represented', between 'signifier' and 'signified'.
