tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8807685073027188764.post1529167855598399430..comments2024-03-14T08:38:46.219-07:00Comments on Biophilia: Plato vs AristotleBurkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08135758421220520531noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8807685073027188764.post-66661245523986667852009-07-29T20:09:37.756-07:002009-07-29T20:09:37.756-07:00Please check out these references which provide a ...Please check out these references which provide a unique perspective on the themes of your blog altogether.<br /><br />This reference contains a unique appreciation of the Symposium. It also contains a critique of the anti-ecstatic hair-shirt reductionism that we have inherited from Aristotle.<br /><br />www.adidamla.org/newsletters/toc-aprilmay2006.html<br /><br />This reference provides a critique of the ideology of scientism which now rules the world.<br />It also has essays on God and religion.<br /><br />www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-science.aspx<br /><br />An essay titled Reality Is Not In The Middle via this url<br /><br />www.dabase.org/s-atruth.htm<br /><br />A unique understanding of the biosphere altogether via.<br /><br />www.fearnomorezoo.org<br /><br />Plus an introduction to the authors remarkable Image Art<br /><br />www.adidabiennale.org/curation/index.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8807685073027188764.post-57166391425894358152009-07-26T12:23:39.161-07:002009-07-26T12:23:39.161-07:00I give you props for admitting, contrary no doubt ...I give you props for admitting, contrary no doubt to what you probably have heard from such (lame) sources as infidels.org, that Jesus existed in real space-time history.Rhologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14245825667079220242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8807685073027188764.post-39623379786085017872009-07-25T20:55:06.901-07:002009-07-25T20:55:06.901-07:00This is an exciting line of thought from you. At ...This is an exciting line of thought from you. At the risk of being too bold, I feel you are on a similar journey to mine, though from (slightly) different starting points. Perhaps it's the journey we are all on. Balancing what our senses tell us is true with the meaning that our efforts require. Recognizing that "truth" is what I decide it is in the end, despite the fact that I can't decide certain inputs into the equation. Philosophy, to me, is this attempt at harmonization.<br /><br />As a younger man, and an artist of a sort, I tended to be prejudiced against my ideas of the physical world, the crude matter around us. I preferred the artist world of creativity and ideas. Then, of course, I realized that the outer world is also "just in my head". Hence my search for harmonization - utilizing faith but fighting the abuse of faith, Pursuing reductionism (perhaps a bit too far)to the point where we see that an idea is a physical electrical charge not ulitimately unlike the keyboard I am touching, Feeling inspiration, at the same time, from pursuing knowledge and from intuitively feeling our assured limitations of perspective, as players in the universe we try to describe.<br /><br />The gap is a beautiful thing. But the more we refine it, the more beautiful it becomes.<br /><br /><br />I hope I'm not too off topic. I am quite sympathetic to the gnostics and their approach which I think hit on many great truths. Of course, the orthodox had organization on their side. The unfortunate need for hierarchy gave the orthodox meme greater fitness I suppose. <br /><br />John Dominic Crossan is less attracted to gnostics because of their dim view of physical reality. I sympathize, but I like their focus on individual experience.<br /><br />Fascinating stuff.Steven Starkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677314285938844360noreply@blogger.com