A man stands in front of you. He holds two pills, one in each hand. You can choose Christian Zeolatry or Nietzschean Self-Creation. There is no third option.
Would highly recommend reading Nietzsche chronologically. Seeing where his thought grows and where it declines is important to being able to take what’s good from the man as he is an embodiment of philosophical paradoxes.
God/Religion might be the thing that humanity crystallizes around, but it will not be the cause of the crystallization. It will take an imminent existential trauma before we can ever share a unifying ideology again.
I think, like myself twenty years ago when I used the assignment to talk about reproductive ethics in a college class to show a clip of Monty Python's Every Sperm is Sacred, you or perhaps Trueman misses the real critique of IVF, namely the wasted embryos. Without that, I'd be on board with promoting the technology as a boon to the barren, with it, it's legitimately troubling, at least, from a religious perspective.
Speaking of Trueman, what a name to write this book, huh?
Minor points aside, this is a topic that is incredibly timely as we as a society seem increasingly desperate to answer the ages old question, "Who are we?" Collectively, individually, superficially and ontologically, we seem to be thrashing around looking for a satisfying reason to continue to exist.
Would highly recommend reading Nietzsche chronologically. Seeing where his thought grows and where it declines is important to being able to take what’s good from the man as he is an embodiment of philosophical paradoxes.
God/Religion might be the thing that humanity crystallizes around, but it will not be the cause of the crystallization. It will take an imminent existential trauma before we can ever share a unifying ideology again.
I think, like myself twenty years ago when I used the assignment to talk about reproductive ethics in a college class to show a clip of Monty Python's Every Sperm is Sacred, you or perhaps Trueman misses the real critique of IVF, namely the wasted embryos. Without that, I'd be on board with promoting the technology as a boon to the barren, with it, it's legitimately troubling, at least, from a religious perspective.
Speaking of Trueman, what a name to write this book, huh?
Minor points aside, this is a topic that is incredibly timely as we as a society seem increasingly desperate to answer the ages old question, "Who are we?" Collectively, individually, superficially and ontologically, we seem to be thrashing around looking for a satisfying reason to continue to exist.