From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 18:27:31 BST
Hi Sam
These names do not ring a bell, although I have heard of the Blond book.
I certainly see my two main interests being the link between
politics/religion and
self-realisation, or religion as the new socialism -which seems to be a hot
avenue at the moment and also
the idea of post-secular philosophy and equally a post-modern religion, I
feel after 20 years of philosophy
that everything I know pushes me in the direction of a sacred relationship
to what we might call Being/Quality/Transcendence/
Freedom -I started thinking about this after I read Charles Taylor's sources
of the self, and accepted his argument about the
impluasible and self-undermining nature of the secular project. I think the
future lies with a political-social-religion that is
as different a form of religion as you would expect there to be
post-enlightenment. I think the frontiers of science
throw up all the questions that the MOQ considers, & also Heidegger, so that
the conclusion of SOM encounters a
very different sort of cosmos to the one it set out to discover. My novel is
about these questions, it is a very similar
anti-SOM journey to Pirsig's (which I only read this year) & is derived from
my study of the history of science
and the human sciences and this brought me into contact with Heidegger. As
my anti-SOM inclinations are closer
to Heidegger than Pirsig I am very interested in the religious implications
(AS WELL AS SOCIAL/POLITICAL/INDIVIDUAL) of the sort of metaphysics or
post-metaphysics that MOQ is an example of.
By the way, anyone read Atomised by M.Houllebeq as a sort of parody of SOM?
Regards
David Morey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Norton" <elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: MD Re: MOQ:What is a person.
> Hi David Morey,
>
> I've posted separately to Paul about what I think a person is. But given
your interest in Heidegger
> etc, I was wondering if you'd come across people like Jean-Luc Marion (God
Without Being)? He's
> currently causing waves in the philosophical theology circles that I
follow - along with others. If
> that's of any interest, you might like to have a nose in 'Post-Secular
Philosophy', edited by Philip
> Blond. Some real tosh in it, but also some good stuff - all tying in with
questions of
> 'onto-theology' etc. It's not an area I have great expertise in, but you
might find it interesting
> (and if you did, I'd be interested to know your reactions to it!!)
>
> Cheers
> Sam
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David MOREY" <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 8:34 PM
> Subject: MD Re: MOQ:What is a person.
>
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > Interesting post below. In the context of MOQ what
> > do we think is a good description of what it is to be a person?
> >
> > regards
> > David M
>
>
>
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