[betty boop]

A rather long and challenging piece, but incredibly worthwhile if you have the time and interest. Please see the link for the author's footnotes and sources.

[betty boop]

FYI, here's a real beauty of an essay that unspun found. Lots to chew on here -- if you have the time and interest.

[maestro]

Thanks for the article, BP

'Philosophical'......'ethics'....

:-(

(Romans 10:17)

Maranatha!
:-)

[cornelis]

In his hopes of finding a new myth that is not "somebody's" but could be "everybody's," Rue is in fact reenacting the mythos of modernity

What say, 2 points for this höflich lumpenschlumper?

[cornelis]

Worthy considerations here.

For adjustments, I suggest that a distinction be made between "mythos" and "history" Likewise between "concept" and "covenant." A forgivable slip, for sure. Also, a further elucidation of the kinds of dualisms at play to prevent the reponse, There is no duality .

The author fails to prevent that red herring.

[Humvee]

There is nothing new in the world - maybe someday the author will discover Zen.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC read later

[Alamo-Girl]

I’ve read the article again in some detail and wanted to share a few reactions.

This is a very interesting essay and I applaud the author’s acknowledgment of the ancient Hebrew wisdom: “oriented around such a notion of speech, [they] thus located reality primarily in the spoken word.”

She says with regard to decontextualized knowing:

"The challenge of epistemology, then, is also an ethical venture because both have to do with how we locate or place ourselves in the world. If it is true that we are not godlike, disincarnate knowers, then how are we to understand or locate ourselves as knowers? What mythos or imaginative resources can we draw upon to give us a truthful account of scientific and theological knowing?

IMHO, she jumped a bit too fast over the “disincarnate knowers.” For instance, how could she conclude that we are not disincarnate knowers in a larval existence in mortal life, who must undergo a metamorphosis upon mortal death to assume the adult character? In that example, the mortal knower may be imbued with surpassing insight - perchance, in ethics?

I would have liked to have seen a paragraph or two there...

[unspun]

A ping to those who find the Creation/Evolution discussion often getting into... the kind philosophical discussion treated head on, herein.

I'm going to see Matrix-2 tonight, by theme a "classic" dip into postmodernism? See you later.

[editor-surveyor]

"A rather long and challenging piece..."

BB, If I had a boat, I could go for a cruise on this endless sea of meaningless psuedocognitive, psychomasturbational jargon

[js1138]

Both modernism's disinterested spectator and postmodernism's deconstructed self ...

Are we really supposed to read beyond this parody of intellectualism? The Onion could not come up with a better lead.

[unspun]

An article that may be challenging to those who believe they've enlightened themselves, including our fans of dope merchandising -- "pass it on."

rnm, great to get your pings.

[Stultis]

bookmark for later...