From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 21:53:06 BST
Hi David S
Sounds like we are seeking to set out on the same road.
Keep me posted if you make any good progress.
I recommend Arthur Gibson's God and the Universe,
that looks at the resources of ideas about transcendence and the opening
up of thinking and metaphors in cosmology,
also what do you think of Charles Taylor?
His sources of values seem to relate well to Pirsig.
regards
David M
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From: "storeyd" <storeyd@bc.edu>
To: "David Morey" <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk>; <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Cc: "MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT" <mpkundert@students.wisc.edu>; "Sam Norton"
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Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: RE: MD quality religion (Christianity)
> David M,
> Good points; you highlight the virtue and the vice of postmodernism, that
it
> shows the contingency of the social level, the relativity of contexts,
that SQ
> is not and couldn't possibly be the whole story; however, the prominent
> pomo's--like foucault, derrida, and richard rorty, leave us in the
> desert...they diagnose the problem to a T, but they put nothing positive
in
> its place. deconstruction is the ultimate in "negative philosophy", its
pure
> criticism, and can't help us escape teh gravitational pull of modern
> secularity. in this respect, postmodernism opens up the danger of a
greater
> regression and seclusion in the ego, even as it shows the the self's
> contingency. but yes, now that everything has been taken apart, we can
> reconstruct it...and that means we can bring spirituality, quality, value,
> meaning, depth, etc., back into the picture, and integrate it within both
a
> philosophical and scientific context. this will take time, of course, but
it
> is certainly going to be the thrust of thought in the 21st century, which
> should hopefully see the decline of postmodernism's dominance, and a
> recognition and preservation of its valuable insights.
> -Dave
>
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