That's funny. I live near the site of an almost forgotten mass shooting back in the 1980's in Melbourne. I was there yesterday and talking to a friend...
That's very amusing. Good quesion however - who covers the same space in philosophical thinking in more recent times? I suspect you hate the postmoder...
Could be. If people find Peterson helpful I don't have an issue with that. There's plenty of things that don't work for me that work for others. Here'...
I've seen them. The GQ interview is my favorite of his that I've seen. I've watched at least 30. I've also watched around 6-10 of his podcasts and see...
It might be better to put it: where some people feel they belong. There are probably just as many people (perhaps more?) who find churches cold, intim...
Sure, I might be wrong - I'm just describing what I see. I have worked in the area of mental health for 34 years, so I'm not flying blind. I just look...
Is that an attempt at a slight? As in - 'What would you know, you're a secularist?' I think my position on faith is fairly robust. What approach do yo...
I have long suspected that we embrace ideas which appeal to us aesthetically and emotionally but we take them as facts. Sounds like you relish notions...
The problem with this is there is nothing which can't be justified with such an appeal to faith. I remember sitting down with South African whites in ...
Seems like you don’t understand the point made. No matter. I can’t speak for him but Josh’s does not subscribe to notions of ‘objective truth’ and I w...
Ok. I think your view is the more popular, the other competing account is that he’s mostly an idiot. I find him difficult to watch because of his anxi...
Peterson always strikes me as a man having a breakdown in slow motion, reciting philosophical ideas and psychological theories as a kind or catechism ...
I am open to relativism, so this concern doesn't really bite for me. I suspect that human notions of truth are contingent upon our language, social pr...
I think the point is somewhat sharper than this. I've been interested in the role emotion and aesthetics play in our sense making and values. People t...
Peterson loves Nietzsche because Nietzsche is an atheist who can be used to support Peterson’s thesis that atheism leads to a series of blood baths, a...
Side note response - Isn't this just an argument from Muslim and Christian apologetics 101? For one thing this is an anthropomorphism fallacy - by att...
I don't think Greene will provide you with succour, just stating that he is there waiting for you. Note also that Sh?saku End? the Japanese (and Catho...
More accurately you appear haunted by the religion of your upbringing and culture. It's not as if you are concerned about the spiritual truths found i...
Wittgenstein was an prodigious eccentric who took up and abandoned projects, who knows why he thought the way he did? There are a few ways to interpre...
Thank you for you considered response. While I am mildly interested in why humans find notions of transcendence to be a useful frame, it doesn't work ...
Transcendental ethics would posit that moral truths are not contingent upon individual beliefs, cultural norms, or empirical facts, but rather have a ...
Ha! Yes, we've explored this a bit over the years. Your ideas are arrived at philosophically, mine are not. I've also adopted a presupposition along t...
I'm not sure I understand your thinking. You seem to be identifying as a nihilist, yet you also seem to be advocating for some fixed idea of morality ...
No. I am not spiritual or religious. I'm not always sure what 'spiritual' even means. I ususally understand it as an emotional relationship (connectio...
Sure. But I don't think anyone is arguing that Jesus is just like Spiderman. That's a misrepresentation. The point made earlier was that when Christia...
Exactly. The question is a simple one. How do we demonstrate that the subjective experience described points to anything transcendent? If it's just an...
Interesting, can we compare the two? Kazantzakis is serious philosophy. Python is satire - which points to its own seriousness. If it helps, I grew up...
How do we demonstrate that certain psychological or mental states, which may happen during meditation or during drug use, are anything more than a sub...
Huh? I think it goes directly to Hick's point about multiple expressions stemming from one source. Some of those expressions, like fundamentalism, are...
I've been wondering about this. I like the Hick essay you posted and have read snippets of this venerable old thinker over the years. To me it seems t...
One complication in all thsi is that peopel have differnt worldviews and value systems so it's hard to get agreement. One person's enlightenment may b...
I'm still unclear what this means. I think 'enlightened' may have potential problems for some by association (there are people who seem to dislike the...
Perhaps. Although I wouldn't be able to tell you just what these traditional categories are these days. How much more is there to politics than market...
Surely not an argumentum ad populum? Yes, I would agree that there are countless numbers of people who have had any number of experiences they are wro...
Quite. Well for one thing,we know that there are such things as parents and that parents exist physically and do things. We can demonstrate their exis...
I generally hold that god has no explanatory power. To say god ‘did it’ seems identical to saying the magic man did it since we have no further inform...
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