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- Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:20 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
'faith IN faith' That's redundant. There is no such thing. Faith that lacks any grounding in a particular person, body of facts or rationality is mere fantasy. And it's a fantasy to think that everybody thinks that's what faith is. Religious declarations of 'faith' is an IMPOSED belief because it d...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:16 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
I strongly disagree with your concept of faith vs reason. The concept of reason is being convinced of truth based on evidence and rational inquiry. Faith is believe without evidence (i.e. in things unseen). I realize this is a very convenient depiction of the situation for people who are at pains t...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:59 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Alan Watts - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17738
Re: Alan Watts - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You
Here is my summary of the Alan Watts contextual seminar of Do You Do It Or Does It Do You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbcanJOd3sU One has to be unusual stupid in order to take this vid seriously! What he says is pure nonsense and babble, and the really big bomb comes when he says we can't exis...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:40 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
Side note: no problem about the format issues, KL. Once I saw it, I was able to sort it back out. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Sorry; think you are throwing up a straw man and false choice on this. "Secular Atheism" is a term for a certain ideology which you briefly describe and...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:36 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
:D "Tight-fitting," in fact. :lol: Hmmm. :? I think when one knows enough about it, one sees that the PoMos had something that got them going. It wasn't out of nothing. Modernism did have some very serious incoherencies, and they are indeed a sort of terminal problem for Modernism. Some o...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:35 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
Perhaps he means Derrida and Foucault wear leotards. :D That would be fitting. "Tight-fitting," in fact. :lol: But I think he means Jean-Francois Lyotard, rhymes with "retard," which is also fitting. I really cannot believe any sane person can take any part of POMO seriously. It...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:27 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Alan Watts - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17738
Re: Alan Watts - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You
That is incorrect; Buddhism has actually held up quit well with science. There has been interesting dialogue between Buddhism and neuroscience. That's ONLY because they're good at meditating that science now wants to study, since buddhist monks can stay sane in isolation, in total darkness in Chine...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 12:03 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: What could make morality objective?
- Replies: 9895
- Views: 1054976
Re: What could make morality objective?
To reject moral objectivism is not to accept moral relativism. (That's just intellectually lazy.) Tell you what, try a little genuine thinking. Here are two moral assertions: 1 Abortion is morally wrong. 2 Abortion is not morally wrong. Now, people can and do hold one position or the other - and th...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:53 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
So, my understanding of some of Ellul... very limited... is something like...(Christian Anarchy) in order to realize the Kingdom of God on Earth (e.g. Freedom) to the extent that we can. No, not at all. For example, a kingdom on Earth is nothing Ellul advocates at all...or any Christian advocates, ...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:54 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
Big fan. What have you read of his? What do you like about him? He's very astute and insightful, actually. His study on propaganda is excellent, and his analysis of the meaning of the decline of literacy in The Humiliation of the Word is really, really great. But no, he's not PoMo. He's just a smar...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:37 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Levels of Ethics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1967
Re: Levels of Ethics
WFT? Levels of Ethics Ethics must be related to its appropriate level, unless we create a global state with no cultural diversity. Not true. Adler recognized the difference between "truth" and "taste". We don't want diversity in matters of moral truth; we do want diversity in ma...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 1:20 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Alan Watts - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17738
Re: Alan Watts - Do You Do It Or Does It Do You
Alan Watts is excellent. I'm sorry you don't 'grok' what he's on about. It would be a mistake to think that you do. What he says is what the Buddha says, and Sadhguru, Lao Tsu, Al Hallaj, Meister Echhart, Rupert Spira, Osho, Sri Ramana Maharshi and so on. It is not easy to grasp, but it will be imp...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:21 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
What do you like about him; haven't read much but seems like a standard Marxist shit with a dollop of Jesus on top. I know someone who likes him...who is a pomo Marxist but dispensed with the Jesus.
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:18 am
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: What could make morality objective?
- Replies: 9895
- Views: 1054976
Re: What could make morality objective?
In case you haven't caught on, Peter places greater import on defending the semantics of the objective-subjective distinction than he does on actual human well-being. Actually, I hadn't... but now that you mention it... pretty clear. This little exchange demonstrates the failure of moral realism an...
- Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:41 am
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
- Replies: 182
- Views: 24603
Re: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
Agree with your post. Adoption of critical theory, pomo, and neo-marxism mixed with religious template. Perhaps "pure evil" is an over-statement so let's just call it "mostly" evil. So absolutely stupid, I am still amazed that people buy into it. Yeah, I agree with your assessme...