I read reviews of _All Things Shining_ after reading it. Virtually all of them missed the point—which reflects poorly on the book, perhaps!
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Negative reviews all boiled down to “they didn’t take Christianity seriously,” which I think is pretty funny. A bit late for that?
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Dzogchen is perhaps the most worked-out
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Well, Kegan’s “stage 5” may be a Western alternative, although it’s a trifle vague:https://vividness.live/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence/ …
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Yes, it seems to be hard to for Westerners to simply ignore Christianity!
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Nihilism is usually taken as “everything is meaningless,” which is wrong. But >
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“Meaning exists but has to transcendent source” is correct. My book, and Dreyfus/Kelly’s one, try to work out implications.
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Yes, I think that’s exactly right… but once you admit that, it’s no longer existentialism as usually understood.
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What you suggest here is very much Dreyfus’s position—influenced by Charles Taylor among others.
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Yes, I agree with all three parts of that!
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OTOH, I don’t know of someone typically considered an existentialist who takes the position we’ve just described?
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