Philosophical Speculations

I have mixed views on Hilary Lawson. Sometimes he seems to take such an extreme post modernist view that he makes no sense at all ( such as in this debate on realism https://iai.tv/video/after-the-end-of-truth) On the other hand he does seem to get different views ... by accepting everything as valu...

Indeed. I didn’t realise that this is a series of five videos, and Bernardo gets a mention in the “debunking physicalist arguments” one.

There’s also one from seven years ago on “Quantum Physics Debunks Materialism”

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Some of this has already been included in Bernardo's interviews etc, but I thought the series is quite a good summary;

PS. One of the recent books I’ve ordered (which are all in a pile gathering dust right now) is this https://www.amazon.com/The-Souls-Upward-Yearning-Transcendence-Book/dp/1586179551/?tag=woonfi-20 which apparently brings some of these elements together (including Jung). It has excellent reviews but ...

Yes I agree 100% with all of that. Apologies I misunderstood where you were coming from. I also agree that the effect of this flawed cartesian way of thinking has spread widely. The strange thing is that there are people who have probably not read a single book on any area of philosophy or theology ...

But modern theists don't claim the universe is created from nothing. They claim it is created in time by an eternal timeless Being. So they add onto idealism additional steps of Mind creating matter and matter evolving into planet Earth (unless they hold to 'young Earth', which involves no evolutio...

That's the power of the unexamined Cartesian habit of mind. There are highly intelligent and influential theist scholars who have spent their entire lives studying scripture and theology, yet still believe Genesis is describing a literal creation of a material universe from the immaterial Mind of G...

Yes that’s my thought as well. Even the atomists like Democritus weren’t dualists as far as I’m aware. Property dualism is a different matter, and the story seems to be that Aristotle specifically rejected Plato’s view that the form, the immaterial aspect, could survive independently. But this is wh...

Thanks Eugene. I’ve ordered a few books to see if they can help clear this up for me a bit further.

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I think you’re right that collectively we could easily create a balanced, accurate and informative set of articles that are far better than what is there at present...