Would you trust this man with a razor?
Kudos to Matthew Schmitz for his beautiful summary of what has been called “reverse Whiggism” or medieval hipster irony. I plan to link it often when this sort of thing comes up.
Would you trust this man with a razor?
Kudos to Matthew Schmitz for his beautiful summary of what has been called “reverse Whiggism” or medieval hipster irony. I plan to link it often when this sort of thing comes up.
It was a cute piece.
It doesn’t change the fact that antirealism predictably leads to bad results, of course, and it doesn’t help us find resources for a robust realism which is not reductively rationalist or materialist, but it’s accurate as far as it goes.
For my money, just keep mining the first four on the list, and let the rest be as tedious as they like.
But, of course, the people who think “antirealism” is the only problem do not, in fact, produce the robust realism we need; in fact they are hard at work destroying it. Nobody’s politics or economics are more materialistic or rationalistic than Alasdair MacIntyre’s.
I can’t help with that, not being a party to your ongoing dispute, there. I’ve never been much of a follower of contemporary gurus. Nobody who thinks we have just one problem is very helpful. But generally any one person can only tackle one or two “big picture” problems in a lifetime, right? Because we are all creatures of our own shared cultural blind spots striving to be transformed into the creatures our Creator intended. And rejecting that intention while deifying the striving are pretty radical problems.
Focus on only one “big picture” problem and you will fail to make any headway on it because you will fail to see the big picture.