Political and aesthetic. — Tom Storm
I guess there is no Philosophy to make any such promises, only particular philosophies. — Tom Storm
We've been lost in the pluralitistic rubble since the infallible popes ? — plaque flag
I’ve been on a Deleuze jag lately. — Joshs
I read the OP as Make Philosophy Great Again ! — plaque flag
None of those continentals - Deleuze, Badiou, Derrida, Lacan - have ever been part of my curriculum, and at this stage in life it's probably too late to begin. (I have discovered, however, a couple of secular critiques of naturalism from within English-speaking analytic philosophy, I'm going to make an effort to absorb them. Oh, and I am persisting with Evan Thompson's books.) — Wayfarer
I agree. It's that garden we were never actually in. Freedom and nihilism are two sides of one coin.Yesterday being a kind of romantic Panglossian reconstruction. The notion of Golden Eras we have lost seems to haunt multiple subcultures these days, from mawkish Youtube comments on Elvis, to speculative historicisms by certain academics. — Tom Storm
We are indeed god made flesh (wet-hardware) driven by spirit, or software as you call it. — invicta
a questioning mind which only ceases when we realise that some of our questions cannot by answered by reason alone — invicta
Exactly. God is indeed everywhere! Just as consciousness becomes delocalised by the movement of the wetware so does the spirits interaction with its environment always being presented with a changing landscape giving vision its reason for existence. — invicta
Philosophy of course arising from the biggest myth creators to ever exist. The Greeks for want of rational explanation to brute questions the Gods themselves had to be ditched in favour of truth itself harsh or comforting that it may turn out to be. — invicta
I find that most but few atheistic mindsets often lean towards a nihilistic way of life. Nothing matters, morality itself being man made can even equal that of scripture in its basic tenets however the higher forms of expression are alien to the atheist such as the creation of art or meaningful literature. — invicta
some of our questions cannot by answered by reason alone or even science which aims to probe the very fabric of reality itself, always falling short in its noble endeavour by the simple fact that our comprehension can never transcend it even for want of trying. — invicta
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