eg Sokal & Bricmont criticise the postmodernists on these grounds & Peterson does the same kind of thing.pic.twitter.com/tfJlN6Z0VM
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I guess that is a very noncommittal attitude which might not be enough to preserve the 'ancient wisdom'
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.
Yeah. It will eventually but he wants to preserve what is "true" (his definition) about those.
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
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.
Well, I think we're going to have to just agree to disagree.
I don't think they're literally true. Just the compression of thousands of years of knowledge (of the pragmatic sort) worth decompressing.
I find them very interesting historically & culturally. This is what I study after all. How ppl used religious narratives to find meaning.
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