The End of Spirituality - Deconstructing Spirituality with Postmodern Hermeneutics
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- In this episode, I extend the thinking of of the American #postmodern #philosopher Richard Rorty (who is said to have brought the end of philosophy) to #spirituality.
With the rebellious badassery of anyone who brings change to an infrastructural or cultural edifice, the American #postmodern #philosopher Richard Rorty went so far as to deconstruct his own discipline, stripping #philosophy of its “whigishness”, and releasing it from the burden of determining morality, truth, or knowledge and reducing it to merely one of many ways of having a conversation.
Rorty’s approach devalues #truth and knowledge, relegating seemingly profound #existential concepts to nothing more than a lexicon that is peculiar to Western philosophy due mainly to the path that the discipline has followed over time. By taking this #hermeneutic turn (directing philosophy’s attention to the meaning of language rather than meaning at large), Rorty pokes at philosophy’s ego. Although, says Rorty, philosophy ought to continue its epistemological work, it can no longer be viewed as the almighty arbitrator of claims made by religion, politics, and science as it once was.
#postmodernism #poststructuralism #psychotherapy #yoga #rishikesh #postphilosophy #postspirituality #deconstruction #deconstructingchristianity
It takes a special kind of ego coupled with arrogance to look at the cosmos and believe that you have the ability to know there are no genuine mysteries to discover and that there is nothing except random chaos. The academic echo chamber can do that to you.
Actually Academic world is told what to do , they do a job , example Theory of Relativity , Einstein , First did not believe in Black Holes , who cares we have Academics give them the task oh here is teh Special Relativity , case closed . make 1000 documentaries about Black Holes there you go people believe , but then those Academics needed more job , so they contineued , for nothing was adding up , nothing worked , so we got Dark Matter , Dark Energy , Dark Flow ... well public cant really fallow that , its just too much .
But the point is Academics got the theory from Church , its documented , the Theory of Big Bang is lot older then Einstein . So a Priest came in offering Einstein the Theory , what is the word Theory , it means Speculation . And since Einstein had no skills in math , his wife Mileva wrote it all down , and hence we got the begging of it .
But of course when you apply math to abstract ideas that you do not know the meaning of , you get gibberish . For math to be useful 1 has to mean something , like 1 fish , and if the other 1 means a monkey , 1+1 does not equal 2 , it still means 1+1, a fish plus a monkey . You have to give meaning to the numbers to get meaningful answers . Otherwise its just Theory , and theory is Speculation . Nothing more .
The mystery is in our heads. The thing that we consider to be undiscovered and mysterious is already there, always has been, and will continue to be, regardless of whether or not we ever recognize it. The arrogance is in holding so firmly to things known that things learned cause such a profound sense of awe. As the saying goes: “Good find, Columbus. We were already here.”
Re: the video description. So, a postmodern philosopher deconstructed philosophy using postmodern philosophy? I haven't heard of a more amusing deconstruction of postmodernism. That's not 'The rebellious badassery of someone who brings change to an infrastructural or cultural edifice' - that's just open hypocrisy. It's literally the kind of 'reasoning' that O'Brien uses in 1984.
You’ve got a point. Maybe this is why Rorty quit philosophy. Thanks for your comment!
Don't tell us about your cringe bumble date. People who leave intense cult-like religions never really leave, because their entire existence becomes a reaction against it.
Normal people who were raised secular or in milk toast religion, don't have this all encompassing need to react against their upbringing. If you want to leave your religion, then stop caring about it.
It's like you want to refute it, but simultaneously need to fill that emptiness of purpose with something else.
kinda gay to be cult-like in your defining of normalcy. "No! You have to stop caring or else you haven't actually changed!". Yo maybe it's part of their journey towards not caring by trying to grapple with this feeling of loss and seeking answers elsewhere. Don't rush the grieving process and all that
@@kamkamkam_ Normal is just the average. The average person is not raised in an intense and strict religious household. A normal person in America is either vaguely religious or secular. Normal doesn't mean "good" or "the way things should be." Something is normal only relative to a culture at a certain point in time.
Kind of gay to be honest.
Wow, you can determine the sexual orientation of a RUclips video?! You must know a lot about homosexuality!Thanks for your comment! 😚😚