Monday, August 17, 2015

Modern justification on "personal choices."

Angsty singer-songwriter-guitarist Ed Sheeran said it.

"Because I like it and my opinion only matters."

It's a good looking piece of art - that should be on a canvas instead.

3 comments :

Frederick Froth said...

Hi, I am from Australia.
You seem to presume that thinkers or philosophers( particularly Christians) in the good old "olden-days" had a better understanding of the nature of Truth & Reality than those in the modern era.

Well, this aint necessarily so!

Please find an introduction to a unique Philosopher & Artist, who out of urgent cultural necessity thoroughly examined at a profound depth level every proposition ever made about the nature of Reality in all times and places, ancient and modern, East & West.

1. www.beezone.com/AdiDa/Aletheon/there_is_a_way_EDIT.html Consciousness & the universal scape goat "game"
2. www.beezone.com/whiteandorangeproject/index.html resources on how to really do philosophy as a self-transcending Process
3. www.dabase.org/aletheon.htm an introduction to The Aletheon (The Truth Book)
4. http://spiralledlight.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/4068 Space-Time IS Love-Bliss
5. www.beezone.com/AdiDa/ScientificProof/christ_equals_emsquared.html Jesus & quantum Reality
6. www.adidaupclose.org/FAQs/postmodernism2.html on western philosophy old & "new"
7. www.adidaupclose.org/Crazy_Wisdom/index.html - on emotional-sexual understanding
8. www.dabase.org/up-1-3.htm The Western Prohibition Against Higher Knowledge
9. www.dabase.org/twoarmc.htm Love of the Two Armed Form - on emotional-sexual understanding

GoldRush Apple said...

@ Froth: Thanks for the links. I'll try to read them in the near future.

In saying that, what you wrote before has little to do with the content of the post.

GoldRush Apple said...

Also, I don't presume anything. I believe that they, Christian philosophers, have a better of understanding of nature of truth & reality by my readings of different philosophers - Christian or not - with personal reflection and comparison.

>> in the good old "olden-days"

This is the same bull crap 'card' that people use when they're critical of more traditional morals and beliefs. It basically run parallel to those that use "good old days" as a jab when referring to the 1950s. It's lazy and, frankly, just doesn't hold up when the analogy is held up to the light.

Anyways.


In my readings of dead philosophers, and my interactions with those that espouse philosophies that do not agree with modern, secular philosophers no one - zero, nada - have said that the time of the life of the traditional moral philosopher were the "good old days." Not one. What they did allude to was that the ideas and momentum of the traditional moral framework was was more pronounced, though not widely, amongst the intellectual & academic class. In other words, such a philosophy had more weight and respect.