RE: Pure Brutality
October 7, 2024 at 11:51 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2024 at 11:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Plato believed that we were spiritual or mental beings trapped in physical bodies and this was bad and we needed to escape - but that was too close to the gnostic heresy that this world was created by an evil god. So there had to be revisions and corrections.
They dipped into an aristotlean vision - but this vision had been heavily influenced by physicalism which posited that spiritual stuff or mental stuff was physical stuff - and this deprived their god concept and in fact their entire worldview of it's alleged animating force.
The issue couldn't be resolved and by the 1700's cartesian dualism had entered the chat. So...that, in a nutshell, is what is "spiritual" about thoughts. It's a solution in search of a problem which will validate a reliably mistaken worldview.
They dipped into an aristotlean vision - but this vision had been heavily influenced by physicalism which posited that spiritual stuff or mental stuff was physical stuff - and this deprived their god concept and in fact their entire worldview of it's alleged animating force.
The issue couldn't be resolved and by the 1700's cartesian dualism had entered the chat. So...that, in a nutshell, is what is "spiritual" about thoughts. It's a solution in search of a problem which will validate a reliably mistaken worldview.
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