Posted on 06/03/2009 8:42:23 PM PDT by gobucks
snip...You ascribe to me a philosophy I have not expressed. Then you proceed to attack this straw philosophy.
Spirited: You most certainly have expressed it. Your stated goal of ‘blurring distinctions’ is the prescription of Monism. Some examples of Monistic philosophy/ideology here in America are the following:
1. Materialism, empiricism
2. Progressivism
3. Progressivized Christianity (aka liberal theology)
4. Socialism in its every variant
5. New Age
6. Darwinism
All of the above are grounded on Naturalism-—the idea of a closed rather than open system—and have the effect of, in your own words, blurring distinctions by reducing all things to ‘one.’ This is Monism.
Do you get to add me to your collection if you pin me down?
Or is this merely your way of dismissing anyone with whom you disagree?
I assure you, if in your amoeboid hunger you are trying to encompass my thinking within your limited understanding of it, you are spreading yourself too thin.
I have merely revealed the proposition underlying your stated goal of ‘blurring distinctions.’ Your immediate reaction has been scoffing and anger. The question now is, “Why does the truth make you angry?”
It ain’t about me.
I’ve been enjoying my read of Gopnik’s book “Angels and Ages”. He makes Darwin, and his birthday buddy Abraham Lincoln, really come alive with his details.
He speaks of John Brown, Mark Twain, Lincoln, and other contemporaries of the two men on whom he focused. He arranges these characters like pieces on a chessboard, showing the work he went through to research the book, even before the game begins.
That statement seems self-refuting.
Cordially,
"That statement seems self-refuting."
Some people are easily confused.
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