Adrie said:
Been thinking about this sentence, as quoted,"" Radical empiricism is a
rejection of scientific objectivity AND religious Absolutism."" Can i read and
understand it like this proposal?, 'Radical empiricism contains the rejection
of alleged scientific objectivity and religious absolutism, and ! absolutism
'an sich '? so to speak rejecting absolutism because it's projecting
boundary's? can you decondense it a little bit?
dmb says:
I'm not sure what you're asking. Try this idea: religious absolutism and
scientific objectivity have very different pictures of reality but they both
assert that the truth is singular because there is just one reality and one
right way to understand it. For a pragmatist, however, there are many truths
and there is no single exclusive Truth. Also, as the pragmatist sees it, "god"
and "matter" are both abstract concepts that have been mistaken for realities,
mistaken as the "real" reality behind appearances. This error is called
"reification".
Adrie said:
BTW , love the word partisan, its common use here , i'm surprised to see it in
your language. My aunt was a partisan, btw, saved alive from a pile of dead
body's at Bergen-Belsen by American forces. She worked for the V5
resistanceforce, and was caught by the Germans. When they found her, her weight
was 25 kilo/50 pounds? She lived 3 years in the camps, even in Treblinka, and
Dora Mittelbau.
dmb says:
My use of the word "partisan" was not that specific, of course. I like to use
the word because it not only expresses a one-sided loyalty to a cause or
position but it also vaguely suggests that such points of view only see one
"part" of the picture. So I use the word to mean both "biased" and
"incomplete". The term "partial" works the same way.
I like to think I would have been a partisan back in WW2. Sadly, at the time
there were many NAZI sympathizers throughout the Western world. Right-wing
politicians and conservative religious leaders looked upon Hitler with
admiration. One example, from my home town... was "Father Coughlin" about whom
Wiki says:
"After the 1936 election, Coughlin increasingly expressed sympathy for the
fascist policies of Hitler and Mussolini as an antidote to Bolshevism.[18] His
CBS radio broadcasts became suffused with antisemitic themes. He blamed the
Depression on an "international conspiracy of Jewish bankers", and also claimed
that Jewish bankers were behind the Russian Revolution. On November 27, 1938,
he said "There can be no doubt that the Russian Revolution ... was launched and
fomented by distinctively Jewish influence."
Social Justice on sale in a New York City street, 1939He began publication of a
magazine, Social Justice, during this period. Coughlin claimed that Marxist
atheism in Europe was a Jewish plot against America. The December 5, 1938 issue
of Social Justice included an article by Coughlin which reportedly closely
resembled a speech made by Joseph Goebbels on September 13, 1935 attacking
Jews, atheists and communists, with some sections being copied verbatim by
Coughlin from an English translation of the Goebbels speech. At a rally in the
Bronx in 1938, he reportedly gave a Nazi salute and said, "When we get through
with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany
was nothing."[19] Coughlin did state "Nothing can be gained by linking
ourselves with any organization which is engaged in agitating racial
animosities or propagating racial hatreds." [20] Furthermore, in an interview
with Edward Doherty of The Liberty magazine, Coughlin states:"My purpose i
s to help eradicate from the world its mania for persecution, to help align
all good men. Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile, Christian and
non-Christian, in a battle to stamp out the ferocity, the barbarism and the
hate of this bloody era. I want the good Jews with me, and I'm called a Jew
baiter, an anti-Semite."[21]On November 20, 1938, two weeks after
Kristallnacht, Coughlin, referring to the millions of Christians killed by the
Russian Marxists, said "Jewish persecution only followed after Christians first
were persecuted."[22] After this speech, and as his programs became more
antisemitic, some radio stations, including those in New York and Chicago,
began refusing to air his speeches without pre-approved scripts; in New York,
his programs were cancelled by WINS and WMCA, leaving Coughlin to broadcasting
on the Newark part-time station WHBI. On December 18, 1938 two thousand of
Coughlin's followers marched in New York protesting potential asylum law
changes that
would allow more Jews (including refugees from Hitler's persecution) into the
U.S., chanting, "Send Jews back where they came from in leaky boats!" and "Wait
until Hitler comes over here!" The protests continued for several months.
Donald Warren, using information from the FBI and German government archives,
has also argued that Coughlin received indirect funding from Nazi Germany
during this period.[23]After 1936, Coughlin began supporting an organization
called the Christian Front, which claimed him as an inspiration. In January
1940, a New York City unit of the Christian Front was raided by the FBI for
plotting to overthrow the government. Coughlin had never been a member but his
reputation suffered a fatal decline.[24]"
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