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- Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:44 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
- Replies: 355
- Views: 31209
Re: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
If all truths are provisonal, as Gramsci and Nietzsche tell us, then this includes 'truths' such as those that claim that material/spiritual debasement has a metaphysical-spiritual source and that individual freedom is premised on market inequality. From a Gramscian point of view, these 'truths' hav...
- Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:23 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
- Replies: 355
- Views: 31209
Re: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
Precisely. He was most concerned with debasing of the material world, but there is also debasing of the spiritual world, i.e. materialism, Marxism (which Nietzche took to task in "tarantulas" passage of Zarathustra), etc. Even certain forms of religious fundamentalism debase the spiritual...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:49 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
- Replies: 355
- Views: 31209
Re: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
The Church is nowhere to be found except in various social and political "causes" that the average person couldn't care less about... Jesus said "Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers You Do unto Me". Yet one in four US households experienced food insecurity last year, w...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 5:22 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
- Replies: 355
- Views: 31209
Re: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
The Church is nowhere to be found except in various social and political "causes" that the average person couldn't care less about... Jesus said "Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers You Do unto Me". Yet one in four US households experienced food insecurity last year, w...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:41 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
- Replies: 355
- Views: 31209
Re: Nietzsche and Christianity - Metaphysical Idealist Critique
The Church is nowhere to be found except in various social and political "causes" that the average person couldn't care less about... Jesus said "Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers You Do unto Me". Yet one in four US households experienced food insecurity last year, w...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:15 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Cellular consciousness
- Replies: 4
- Views: 794
Cellular consciousness
Here is an interesting paper recently published on cellular consciousness: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/5/2545/htm . It is not written from an idealist perspective, but could probably be adapted to one (eg cell membranes as one type of 'dissociative boundary'). Here is the abstract: "Cells...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:59 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Will idealism ever become part of the mainstream?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 11639
Re: Will idealism ever become part of the mainstream?
Unfortunately humanity's development doesn't proceed in this way. Never in history it is the case that something is developed intellectually then accepted, and then applied in practice. All human evolution proceeds from hidden spiritual impulses. I think that is only half right in terms of Hegelian...
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:36 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Will idealism ever become part of the mainstream?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 11639
Re: Will idealism ever become part of the mainstream?
It's probably true that whilst idealism can be connected with spirituality, it doesn't have to be. So there's probably value in both atheistic and nonatheistic forms of idealism being developed. For example, I've been reading about Italian idealism of the 20th century, which was very much focussed o...
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:16 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Will idealism ever become part of the mainstream?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 11639
Re: Will idealism ever become part of the mainstream?
I think it's just concerning that a seeming majority of idealists have a strong bias towards sprituality. It's hard to make the case we're coming to our conclusions based on reason and evidence when things like paranormal experiences keep getting brought up. I think that under an idealist metaphysi...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:39 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Wikipedia Hard Problem Article
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1609
Re: Wikipedia Hard Problem Article
Yeah, I think it does have a reputation for being fringe (maybe due in part to Wikipedia!), but the few articles I've looked at seemed pretty rigorously argued.