#Spinoza
Scrapheap 2014.05.12 – People like Bundy, Eich, Sterling, Robertson, Deen, and Spinoza
Posted in notes, Philosophy, Politics Tagged with: bigotry, Brendan Eich, Cliven Bundy, freedom of speech, homophoboia, marriage equality, Racism, Spinoza
David Bentley Hart as Atheist (On Creative Principle and Creator Principal)
Simply to assert, as Hart very much seems to, that the truth of a religious tradition is utterly severable from every particular element of that tradition, that it is essentially irrelevant to the inquiry into religion what the mass of believers believe or say they believe or are asked to believe, is, for the atheist, bad faith: a mere changing of the subject if not a deception.
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All I Wants Is a Room Somewhere
The phrase “extravagantly metaphysical accounts of the self” already pre-judges and conceals the question. Any account of the self will appear “extravagant” from every conceivable alternative point of view. The position on the self – on Self as a universal or equally any self at all – is already a position on an infinitude and/or nothing, a category of subjectivity other than and opposed to objectivity.