(If I'm allowed a bit of innocent gushing among strangers )This was _unbelievably_ good. _Man_ I wish I could talk like that and contain all this content. This is how I want to think. So inspiring , thank you.
And a question -- The person mentioned alongside Whitehead (who I'm presently grappling with), was that Charles Sanders Peirce (name kind of sounded like that, or did I mishear)? As an ex-academic mathematician I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know him ( let alone his philosophical contribution). Would you have a book to recommend to start getting into his thinking?
Thanks, Olga. Regarding Peirce, I have several essays on his thought on my Substack here you could find with a quick search. He didn’t write books, only articles.
Also, I think they mis-characterize most religious people. Most religious people follow ritual and community, and spend very little time having "non-arbitrary conversations" around religious values. And I think they underestimate how modern "psuedo-values" they would call them, are woven into fundamentalist cultures in the same way that they are in western christian cultures. Just my opinion.
I think they sent you out on a limb when wrapping your "as if" around their skepticism of the role of the imagination in religion. I mean, they are writing "as if" they are David J Temple -- a mythical persona wrapped un in a literary trope!
(If I'm allowed a bit of innocent gushing among strangers )This was _unbelievably_ good. _Man_ I wish I could talk like that and contain all this content. This is how I want to think. So inspiring , thank you.
And a question -- The person mentioned alongside Whitehead (who I'm presently grappling with), was that Charles Sanders Peirce (name kind of sounded like that, or did I mishear)? As an ex-academic mathematician I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know him ( let alone his philosophical contribution). Would you have a book to recommend to start getting into his thinking?
Thanks, Olga. Regarding Peirce, I have several essays on his thought on my Substack here you could find with a quick search. He didn’t write books, only articles.
Thanks! I'll get on it:)
Also, I think they mis-characterize most religious people. Most religious people follow ritual and community, and spend very little time having "non-arbitrary conversations" around religious values. And I think they underestimate how modern "psuedo-values" they would call them, are woven into fundamentalist cultures in the same way that they are in western christian cultures. Just my opinion.
I think they sent you out on a limb when wrapping your "as if" around their skepticism of the role of the imagination in religion. I mean, they are writing "as if" they are David J Temple -- a mythical persona wrapped un in a literary trope!
The clarity in "evil as a failure of intimacy" brought me to stillness.
Yes, so much of value for anyone listening.