tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post356698279271215682..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: If not, then what? as a metaphysical toolBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59050761388320092122016-07-16T21:50:58.302+01:002016-07-16T21:50:58.302+01:00@Jonathan - I don't know what you mean by The ...@Jonathan - I don't know what you mean by The Secret, so - not that. I was getting at the way that public morality is all about feelings, for example political correctness. Or the 'emotivist' idea of ethics. When people are in the psychological mindset, they can and do reject any materialist/ scientific data that is inconvenient or in some way not wanted. These 'arguments' amount to sheer assertion backed by force and propaganda. For example, when something is deemed offensive or demeaning or oppressive or whatever - this is sheer assertion about what millions of people supposedly think, with no attenpt at proof. This goes alongside and unintegrated with a self-styled materialism which rejects all spiritual knowledge or influence - rejects deity, angels, demons, the soul, life beyond death and so on. My point is that there are these two incompatible metaphysical systems between which people oscillate - the coherence being of a negative kind - a coherence only of opposition (to Christianity but beyond that to the whole arena of positive spiritual metaphysics). As I have often said, modern mainstream ideology is negative, destructive - it is not coherent and has no positive creative aim. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-26166651288046102132016-07-16T18:23:52.519+01:002016-07-16T18:23:52.519+01:00Thanks for fleshing out the metaphysics of moderni...Thanks for fleshing out the metaphysics of modernity more. I'm still struggling to understand the downstream conclusions that follow from different metaphysical assumptions, but I'm learning a lot trying.<br /><br />Can you expand on what you mean by "the idea that although materialism is really-real, it is also trivial or irrelevant and psychology is the most important reality"? Are you talking about people who read "The Secret" and imagine they can create their own reality by willing it hard enough? Or do you have something else in mind?Jonathan Cnoreply@blogger.com