Tom Storm

I think I have largely come around to your way of looking at this.

Just for the sake of argument and to understanding context - why are you concerned about morality at all? When people start theorising about morality,...

Yes, and I'm more than sympathetic to Evan's thesis and also the equally fascinating Michel Bitbol.

Sure, but as I say, I don't think this is simple or clear. And we are also talking about values and emotion (I guess pathos was a repetition?).

I was pretty sure this would wait until week two, but there it is.

I’m not sure. Those experiences may not be unified under a single foundational principle. Experience is interesting but contested space. I don’t have ...

I don't think I am convinced that this counts as knowing as such and is likely to be a symbolic connection or relationship emerging from contingent be...

You may be right. I’m not huge on politics, all I really know is never vote Liberal.

I have been particularly interested in @"Joshs" contributions and am often intrigued and/or sympathetic to the frames he brings here via post-structur...

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Yep. Well put. I'm not sure exactly what direction it will go but we'll know soon enough.

You're the expert. Tell me.

:up: Cool. As an atheist (by disposition) I remain intrigued by most things. I dislike closing doors. But I am also getting on in years, with limited ...

Thank you. Possibly needs a thread - it's a fairly subtle line of thought. I have often wondered about this. The usual answer seems rooted in the defi...

I wonder what an adaptation might look like made by a black director/auteur.

Nice. I must have read it a dozen times over the years. I discovered this book at 10 and never looked back. Each time I re-read it (like The Great Gat...

Interesting quesion. Do you think there needs to be an end point? I tend to think of these ideas more as dispositions or methods, not goals, and these...

I got through 9 of them recently (translation: Steve Ellis) but lost interest. I'd love to have the patience for more.

I love DBH. I'd love to have a chat with him. I missed him here in Melbourne last year. He was at a conference I could have attended but didn't see. H...

I'm not sayign that he does this. And nor would I. Suffering is serious. Probably the most serious and formative matter I can think of. Indeed, very i...

Have a look at Hart's recent interview on Youtube with Curt Jaimungal. He's pretty clear. It's a pretty staggering interview - perhaps because he is, ...

I'm not sure about that. What do you mean by 'accommodate'. David Bentley Hart has said (and recently at great length) that the problem of suffering (...

Thank you but @"Joshs" is a serious player in this space and I am sure he has a response.

That sounds complicated and a lot like hard work. Is this exhausting to live by? As a non-philosopher I find this hard to grasp or at least accept. Is...

This would cover my sense of the world today, but oddly I get there more from an immanent frame. Like David Hart (although not sharing his faith), I s...

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Nice. I don't come out of a philosophical tradition, but I was always taught that one needs to separate healthy skepticism from denialism. I do think ...

Yes, this neoliberal approach was as common In Australia as it was in Spain. We used to make clothing, tools, cars, whitegoods, toys, furniture. All n...

:up: I certainly appreciate him as a maverick director even if I don't always appreciate his films.

Great, thanks. Yes, I guess if all meaning is contextual and shaped by practices, then a radical skepticism would seem to be superfluous. Such skeptic...

Would you say postmodernism is best understood as a form of skepticism, or does it represent a distinct philosophical approach?

I am happy to be disabused of this view and I may well be wrong. I tend to think of self-indulgent works as, perhaps, phoney or as style over substanc...

I don't know how anyone can argue effectively that a belief in god can resolve a moral conflict. How? How do we know what God thinks about moral issue...

Nice. Well I consider postmodernism to be a huge subject with many tributaries and it would require considerable expertise to understand and critique ...

From the 1960's on until 1990, my grandmother went to Spain every year for three months for her winter holiday. Not sure what she thought about Franco...

If I had to provide a more complex explanation beyond personal taste, I would say that 'getting away with it' means the work successfully enables a su...

Fair enough. I don't mind self-indulgent directors and self-indulgent films, but not all makers can get away with it. Lynch, for me, didn't get away w...

I found most Lynch films terribly contrived and self-indulgent. There were only two I liked: Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. But I'm not sure I could s...

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Agree. Short three sentence paragraphs and dot points are more likely to get it read.

Perhaps not. One of the threads within postmodernism (Rorty comes to mind) suggests that not only is there no definitive answer, but the very 'big que...

Well, that's just one interpretation of god. But don't forget that for many theists god doesn't properly 'know' anything because god is the source of ...

Ok. I'm no expert but I tend to think of postmodernism as a more exciting, perhaps liberating way to examine matters, something that refreshes our dep...

Can you explain what you mean? Do you mean that the hubris and vainglory of foundationalism have been challenged by a severe form of skepticism?

Exactly!

Nicely put. There's very much a cult of 'things used to be better' from almost every quarter (but frequently for different reasons). Some people prefe...

Most mainstream atheists don't think much about issues at all. For me an atheist is just a person with no belief in gods. It doesn't come with any oth...

That's true. But as an atheist I wouldn't differentiate much between any religious experiences, so there is that. I think other religious folk are pro...

Not sure about that. Is this not a cliche? I would argue the West is largely irrational and emotion driven, like most humanity. Remember that reason i...

Fair enough - Haile Selassie is revered as a messianic figure, often regarded as the second coming of Christ or the incarnation of God (Jah).