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To: reasonisfaith

Maybe we aren’t agreeing on ‘absolute’ to start with.

Love, Beauty, Power, Life as qualities of God exist absolutely. For human beings, these are Ideals; and I think they are natural to us and that it’s natural to strive toward them, because we are made ‘in the image’ of God.

But on earth, with men, everything is filtered through perception/point of view. The most we can say about Truth is that Life Love Beauty Power, etc., are ‘True’, and we should try to be True.

I am not trained in writing about these things; and I don’t understand them intellectually anyway, but through some other ‘sense’. Some people have done a very good job of putting these apprehensions into words; Thomas Troward is one of my heroes in that regard, and you don’t have to have an advanced degree in philosophy to understand him. The average literate person just needs to have the patience to stick with him until it all begins to ‘dawn’.


833 posted on 02/15/2018 7:37:46 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

We have what is and we have what ought to be.

What is = ontology. For example: Life exists on earth.

What ought to be = moral law. For example: People should treat each other with kindness.

Then we have phenomenology, which is the subjective experience. This is what you emphasize.


844 posted on 02/15/2018 7:54:14 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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