There's nothing wrong with drawing out ideas that are meaningful to humans from narratives, tropes, characters. I'm a lit student.
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Yes that would be ideal but he says not often possible
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Then we just have to have some epistemic humility & say 'we don't know yet.' That's not difficult & doesn't take anything away.
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I guess that is a very noncommittal attitude which might not be enough to preserve the 'ancient wisdom'
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Then the ancient wisdom will go. If it can't be supported on its own terms & has to be included as knowledge, it probably should.
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Yeah. It will eventually but he wants to preserve what is "true" (his definition) about those.
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So do we all. It is ideal if we can keep the good bits, understand what underlies them & lose the false beliefs & dubious ethics around them
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This is what he does with Bible. I'm with him that the genesis myths are probably super important in this way and should not be thrown away.
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Well, I think we're going to have to just agree to disagree.
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