RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 10, 2019 at 4:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2019 at 4:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 10, 2019 at 3:46 am)bennyboy Wrote:The decline of religious hegemony helped, sure. It was that hegemony that had granted idealism more credence than it was due..going all the way back to pagan greece.(January 10, 2019 at 3:13 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Simply, in the case of a material monism - pretty much as we have been. That's what made (contemporary)idealism ultimately give way and reconcile itself to materialism. The sheer amount of evidence is overwhelming, and the material explanations both compelling..and fruitful.No, the focus on the utility of objectivity and the decline of religious ideas has done that.
Quote:The "sheer amount of evidence" you're talking about is a sheer amount of begging the question. If you're trying to hit a melon with a hammer and say, "See? Evidence of an objective material monist reality," then you're doing it wrong.
Begging what question? It was just a comment on the nature and amount of evidence available to us. Smashing a melon with a hammer is actually a pretty good demonstration of material monism. See the hammer..see the melon? Those two things are evident. Do the two evident things account for what's about to happen, or is there some non-evident special sauce that we have to add before we get to the fun bit with melon flying everywhere? That's the trick, for idealism..to make something of nothing in the minds of a bunch of material girls, living in a material world. That, itself, may account for some of the confluence of interest between idealism and religious hegemony in the first place.
: shrugs :
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