Some young people and profs at universities have used this mechanism. What's the evidence that this is a broader social problem of significant concern...
Fancy wording but I think this is certainly a widely held belief - perhaps that some people weaponise their lived experience. Can you provide a specif...
We know that Murdoch and his flunkies like to label progressives as out of touch and deluded, so the term "woke" works well for them to describe a sup...
Well, I don’t think art is about beauty. I think it’s about evoking an aesthetic experience in a particular context; one shaped by culture, intention,...
I don't deny the point. But I'm trying to work out whether a big lie actually matters, or if it's just reflecting what the public already believes. Th...
Yes, but I guess this group was ready to accept any tale that was anti-Biden or anti-Democrat, right? Any story. It didn’t need to be particularly big...
Interesting. I have only seen it intermittanly and I qalwasy found it conser ative Btu then I cosnider your Democrats to be failty conservative too. I...
But we already know Fox is aligned with the Right and Trump while CNN is softer centrist/conservative. We would have expected both examples of coverag...
I'm not in the religion or God business, but by what measure does one determine whether a religion has failed? By its gifts or its brutalities? How do...
I'm not sure what your point is. If the idea is simply that our external situation (whatever it might be) isn't inherently bad, but rather it's how we...
I tend to agree. The debate about what counts as art seems largely pointless. It's more interesting to talk about what is influential or vital art, ve...
Doesn’t everyone who takes in any news try to filter out the spin? Watching the news is always an act of interpretation: where are they trying to lead...
Interesting formulation of this issue, Josh. In Australia, the only people who use the term 'woke' are Murdoch journalists and oddly discordant right-...
Is this right? Can't utilitarian objects also be understood as art? Think of works by William Morris, for example, or Greek Attic vases. And then ther...
I wasn't saying it was a way out, only that it was a new dimension. I don't know what vicious circle you're referring to. I'm not sure what this estab...
As society becomes more concerned with parity and social justice, ideas about God also tend to become less severe and more inclusive. That’s why some ...
I don’t follow the news closely. In my circle, news stopped being taken seriously in the 1990s. These days, most of us just read up on issues that int...
It’s a pretty absurd story and hard to make sense of unless you buy into it emotionally and overlook its incoherance. I guess this is why many freethi...
Hey, I may need some pointers on the difference between relativism and anti-realism. I'm assuming the anti-realist says something like: "Murder isn’t ...
No, I was assuming, from your posts, that you argue from God or Platonism. My view is that relativist can argue that values are real - but they are co...
Nice. :up: The issue for some is that goodness, truth and beauty emanate from God; are a reflection of God's nature. Take them away and quesions emerg...
This fairly common response seems to me to be a misread of relativism. Or perhaps it's a read of naive relativism. There may well be no objective valu...
Very interesting observations. Thanks. Nice. I wish more people felt similarly - we wouldn't have a world ruined by tourism. A crass interpretation of...
I think the hipster movement died out some years ago. What’s left is a phoney aesthetic for wealthy wankers who want to role play creativity. The so-c...
More importantly, from my perspective, you (the one doing the looking) are different too. The expectations, beliefs, aesthetic impulses, and preferenc...
Hmm. We might reasonably expect religion to be better, morally or existentially, than other human pursuits. After all, unlike sales, filmmaking, car m...
This may be part of the reason I was never much fascinated by philosophy. Arguments don't excite me much, and the experience of living teaches us enou...
There seem to be religious yearnings in the frame you have presented. In relation to Caputo one might hold that his weaving of postmodern ideas back i...
I wasn’t saying you made an argument. Your writing was just opaque to me, so I was trying to get you to express it more clearly, particulary for those...
I think you'll find that the God of mystics doesn't conform to such a stereotype at all, which, for many, is precisely the attraction. Take the God of...
Indeed. And I have to say, contradictions and endless regress don’t often worry me much. Yes, I’ve found Rorty, in as much as I can follow his thinkin...
No need to apologize, it's expected on forums that people can only respond based on their own experiences or level of understanding, so mismatches in ...
I see where you are coming from. I don’t treat any of the premises as fundamental they’re all contingent. For example, if I caught someone invading my...
I’m not sure that answers the question. What you’re saying is a well-known trope, essentially, if you were me you would be following the same path. Bu...
I get that you disagree with me about the Christianity reference. Disagreement is healthy. Happy to put to that to one side. The question remains: Why...
I never said Christianity is all loving and I know the old testament God is like a violent mafia boss. I said your message was ostensibly Christian. A...
I think this is right. It's also worth noting that preferences change. I disliked Mozart and Beethoven when younger (I was a Mahler and Bruckner guy)....
It's still ostensibly like a Christian message. You don't need God to have a Christian moral outlook, it's embedded in culture. It's often said that h...
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