Not wrong at all as far as I can see. Evolution taught us its often gradualism all the way down. The philosopher Dan Dennett wrote my favorite paper on this called “Darwin and the Overdue Demise of Essentialism”. He too ends by saying this could upend a lot of traditional philosophical cookie cutter thinking. My project in evolutionary philosophy is to bring that thinking to each of the major branches of philosophy: epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, politics, aesthetics, and logic. I often say the cosmological revolutions brought on by our discoveries of evolution and the Big Bang need to bring about philosophical revolutions as well.
The latest Philosophy Bites podcast interviewed someone about Japanese Philosophy where this non-dual thinking is common too. Keep it up.
IYH "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they react. Then you win.”
apocryphal, main ideas attributed to Schopenhauer ,
FWIW suggestion: Pitch AskHillel as a sort of "Dear Abby" columnist (or AM Rosenthal "On my mind" type like in the IHT / NYT EO in teh 1980s) to the ToI or the Algemeiner or similar Jewish public online publication. Reader response will validate you when you Fisk Beinhart or the other slick casuists - and you'll be giving people a glimpse of what was once taught: analyzing mendacious manipulative constructs.
kol tuuv
-dyb
p.s. one small quibble (bc it is an old CS joke "There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't." )
The devotees of secular humanism ignored the rise of Nazism and Communidm and were silent during the Holicaust while they worshipped the false god known as FDR
Not wrong at all as far as I can see. Evolution taught us its often gradualism all the way down. The philosopher Dan Dennett wrote my favorite paper on this called “Darwin and the Overdue Demise of Essentialism”. He too ends by saying this could upend a lot of traditional philosophical cookie cutter thinking. My project in evolutionary philosophy is to bring that thinking to each of the major branches of philosophy: epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, politics, aesthetics, and logic. I often say the cosmological revolutions brought on by our discoveries of evolution and the Big Bang need to bring about philosophical revolutions as well.
The latest Philosophy Bites podcast interviewed someone about Japanese Philosophy where this non-dual thinking is common too. Keep it up.
IYH "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they react. Then you win.”
apocryphal, main ideas attributed to Schopenhauer ,
FWIW suggestion: Pitch AskHillel as a sort of "Dear Abby" columnist (or AM Rosenthal "On my mind" type like in the IHT / NYT EO in teh 1980s) to the ToI or the Algemeiner or similar Jewish public online publication. Reader response will validate you when you Fisk Beinhart or the other slick casuists - and you'll be giving people a glimpse of what was once taught: analyzing mendacious manipulative constructs.
kol tuuv
-dyb
p.s. one small quibble (bc it is an old CS joke "There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't." )
Oh, I know that joke too :)
You are right, not a little - we ARE sitting on a foundation that could change how ethics, law, and philosophy are taught and practiced.
Keep it coming
I'm seeing the rationality and objective timeless truth and appreciate the opportunity to contemplate how wrong other approaches have been.
The devotees of secular humanism ignored the rise of Nazism and Communidm and were silent during the Holicaust while they worshipped the false god known as FDR