Hi Ian, On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]>wrote:
> Don't know Auxier, but that is entertaining. Thanks John. > Ian > > Randall E. Auxier is a scholar, writer and philosopher with few peers, in my personal pantheon. I'm also honored to consider him a friend as he stayed at my place for 2 weeks while giving public lectures on Royce in Grass Valley. I'm loving his most recent book that I just quoted. Here's another snippet that is right on. "Human beings are going to be religious. The issue is not *whether* human beings will believe in God (they will) but rather *how* they will conceptualize that belief. It is irresponsible of philosophers in the academy to think themselves above taking "God" seriously. If anything is clear in the present century, it is that the world's troubles are greatly tied to how persons (beyond the academy) are at one another's throats over how rightly to think about God, and many are willing to kill and die for one concept rather than another. To treat this struggle as sub-philosophical is to abdicate the responsibility of philosophy to the world. And many, probably most academic philosophers have abdicated. It is treason against philosophy and a betrayal of of the wider world to to refuse to engage the issues that divide the world. ... Our task is to do whatever we can to promote sane and peaceful dialogue about such ideas and the more difficult the idea, the greater the challenge. It is difficult to imagine a more challenging task that to help in bringing about a better understanding of the idea of God in the present. We can do better." ibid. 128 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
