WOF 342: Breaking Through the Buffered Self
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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The Disjunction Between Science and Science
I have argued that this disjunction followed from the loss of an analogical conception of being. The rather clear result of this disconnect is an ideological materialism, and on the epistemological level, a scientism. This latter reductionist perspective has been very effectively propagated in the popular culture by the so called new atheist. And why would we not appreciate phenomena previously seen as spiritual, the soul, the arts, the longing for meaning, moral commitment, as simply epi phenomenal the effluvia of brain nerves and evolt nary impulses?
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