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Bryn Hammond
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'the spirit of our age replies... there is no such thing as individual wickedness, and so there are no people who can be identified as exploiters and oppressors.'
Look, I'm abandoning. It won't help my research. I've found it too exclusively applicable to a Western Christian tradition, and with the above quote, we're on different planets (or was 1984 another age?). I had a better time with Terry Eagleton's primer.
— Jan 15, 2022 07:17PM
Look, I'm abandoning. It won't help my research. I've found it too exclusively applicable to a Western Christian tradition, and with the above quote, we're on different planets (or was 1984 another age?). I had a better time with Terry Eagleton's primer.
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Bryn Hammond
is 20% done
'simple Persian dualism' srsly
I get that Midgley wants to scotch cultural relativism. But (for example) to dismiss the whole complexity of Zoroastrian-inflected thought, as a dead end in serious thought about evil, is no use.
— Jan 15, 2022 06:16PM
I get that Midgley wants to scotch cultural relativism. But (for example) to dismiss the whole complexity of Zoroastrian-inflected thought, as a dead end in serious thought about evil, is no use.
Bryn Hammond
is 11% done
Hang on. In putting historical Christians' case against dualists as represented by Zoroaster, Mani and other gnostics, Midgley seems to say/agree that the Christian basis (a 'single system') makes the world more intelligible ('an essential presupposition for understanding the world at all') and is also 'needed for science as well as for action'.
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She also dumps the whole of church misogyny onto legacy Manichaeism.
— Jan 14, 2022 05:02PM
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She also dumps the whole of church misogyny onto legacy Manichaeism.
