I also encountered Harvey Cox's writings in my research. That article is terrific, I will read and savour it later. Another of my favourites, although...
The word 'spiritualism' invariably reminds me of Victorian-era seances. More to the point, we are nowadays 'individuals' in a manner which wouldn't ha...
I agree with Noble Dust. It's easy to append the term 'evolution' to everything nowadays, and commonplace to ascribe to 'evolution' what was previousl...
You mean, That price being, a proliferation of universes. It's a case of a desperate problem calling for a desparate solution, as far as I am concerne...
They were (ahem) Europeans, who were quite steeped in the European philosophical tradition; unlike, for instance, Sean Carroll and other contemporary ...
A splendid quote indeed, and quite true. The whole question of whether it's the same or different, is a big one. I bought a copy of a book called The ...
Indeed - that is the theme of a book I mentioned previously, The Theological Origins of Modernity, Michael Allen Gillespie. Max Weber was also brillia...
I think it's the responsibility of those who can understand it to try and do so, and for anyone who is on it to help others. There are all kinds of pe...
If only it were easy.... I would have hoped that green-left politics - critical of corporatism, committed to local-level economies - would provide an ...
I do admire her for what she has done in this respect not least because of the political risks involved and the criticism she's copped from boors like...
No, I was simply making the point that the secularism of the renaissance was still informed by a generally spiritual philosophy. Consider it a footnot...
Incidentally, Sri Aurobindo, who some have referred to as the Hegel of India, has this to say about materialism: I don't want to forget that - it is p...
Perhaps, but the culture hasn't caught up yet. The underlying assumption of most departments of anglo-american analytical philosophy are predominantly...
Well, David Webster might seek anger management counselling. Or perhaps enrol in a meditation class. Two of the leading renaissance humanists - Ficino...
Seems an apt description. Good point, and a very subtle one. The idea of 'individuation' is one of the key points of Jung's philosophy. Those are the ...
When I was at uni, I thought that many of the secularist philosophies were framed around 'anything but God'; that where the best and brightest would, ...
In Eriugena 'Punishment is simply the absence of beatitude, and sinful souls remains trapped after death in the region of fire, the fourth element of ...
Hart spells out in much more detail than I can reproduce here, however, the ennui which took hold of the ancient world after the Fall of Rome, and the...
I don't think that the violence of the Inquisiton or the evils of religious wars and pogroms can be plausibly denied. But the point I make is a very g...
A lot of extremely clever scientists, utilising sophisticated technology, have come to the view that the Universe began with rapid expansion from a si...
Fair enough - but the nub of the issue remains. You're defending Islam on the basis of the fact that it's the right of the individuals who practice it...
Well, I'm a muso and a technical writer. Tech writing is writing procedures, instructions, user guides, etc, for computer systems. It's boring, no dou...
It is an historical account, based on a considerable body of fact. But, of course, as it is written by a Christian, then it might amount to an account...
I was given a book by David Bentley Hart, for Christmas, about five years back, which documents the claim very convincingly in my opinion - Atheist De...
One point that is often overlooked in this secular age is that it seems widely assumed that the Bible, and texts of religious revelation from other cu...
It is the translation of a verse in the Koran, which unequivocally says that disobedient wives are to be beaten. So, what 'agenda' do you think that l...
That sets off all my reductionist red flags.... Hegel lectured on Eirugena as part of his 'history of philosophy', and Eirugena's dialectic was format...
Even according to orthodoxy, Jesus was at once human and divine - that is in keeping with trinitarian theology although I don't think they would accep...
Feuerbach was materialist, Hegel not. To my knowledge, Hegel remained a Lutheran Protestant all his life. I note from the Wikipedia entry on Feuerbach...
I can't see how that works. The explicit discussions of the 'distinction of man from Nature' I recall are those from Indian philosophy, although usual...
By acknowledging that there are real concerns with Islam in terms of political and social integration, instead of clinging to the politically-correct ...
I had that thought, also. I didn't much like Feuerback, or Marx, for that matter, or any of other European atheists intellectuals. My view always was,...
I have made my beliefs clear in the post directly above. In terms of public policy, I would say that what democratic governments ought to do, is ackno...
The point is, the way the Roman Empire behaved is only marginally relevant to current affairs, because it's hardly current. The problem I see is this:...
What you said was: I agreed with that, insofar as in the context of the question of the origin of life, the meaning of 'chance' is indeed distinguishe...
I really don't think the Westbro Baptist church are representative of anything beyond themselves. Anti-abortion activism is another issue, but the bom...
I think that our existential angst is another aspect of whatever gave rise to the dogma of the 'original sin'. I don't necessarily subscribe to the do...
Well, I think there's a pretty strong argument that the neo-darwinian account of intelligence, insofar as it is materialistic or naturalist, is self-d...
Hardly at all. He is one of the founders of the New Left, so was enormously influential on the counter-culture (as was Herbert Marcuse), and also infl...
Figures - I think he got it from Freud (I'm thinking of Totem and Taboo and other essays of that ilk). I'm more inclined towards Jung - and you can't ...
I don't have much regard for 'hypothetical gods', they are too near the playthings of an idle imagination for my liking. What I'm talking about is nea...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in Australia. She is a Somali who fled her home country and religion and is well-known for her critical views of Islam: Her tour ha...
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