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Bringing in a more panpsychist view challenges the supremacy of one divine designer and gestures toward a more Neoplatonic cosmogony, where divine power is “stepped down” through various levels of deities (or angelic hierarchies), each performing a unique function in communicating the divine intent. In this more panpsychist vision, organisms have t... See more
Matthew David Segall • Renewing Religion: The Evolution of God
Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Discourse on Method.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
He described modernity’s obsession with Machen —do/make—as the belief that only what we can build, manipulate, or produce is real. This becomes the default metaphysics of acceleration: faster iteration, more output, more control. But Ratzinger contrasts this with another mode of being: Verstehen and Stehen —to understand and to stand. That is, to s... See more
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
the focus on Jesus as a continuous human subject, born, maturing, dying.
Rowan Williams • Christ the Heart of Creation
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
We are not the isolated, conscious minds often assumed in our folk psychology. Rather, we are fundamentally embodied. Any spirituality that ignores how the body influences what we think and do will not be usefully transformative.
Dr Jonathan Rowson • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
Marcus finally invokes a key fact about human nature: we are built for cooperation within the family of rational beings.