3/2 or there's Steven Batchelor, or the @BuddhistGeeks set, yourself perhaps?
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Replying to @JoelBordeaux @BuddhistGeeks
Afaict, organized Buddhism simply sticks its fingers in its ears and refuses to listen to critiques from these quarters.
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Replying to @Meaningness @BuddhistGeeks
Maybe Buddhist modernists so thoroughly absorbed 20th century critiques that new ones don't seem to req response? What're you thinking of?
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Replying to @JoelBordeaux @BuddhistGeeks
Well, my critique of “Buddhist ethics” was met with near-total silence, e.g.https://vividness.live/2015/09/23/buddhist-ethics-is-a-fraud/#summary …
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Replying to @Meaningness @JoelBordeaux
I think that modern Buddhism knows, at some level, that it’s obsolete and over, and recognizes that defense is impossible, so it doesn’t try
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Replying to @Meaningness
Other trads that you'd say handle outside philosophical/ethical critiques better? Aside from Xianity/Judaism, as arguably inside discourse?
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Replying to @JoelBordeaux @Meaningness
Not Whataboutism, btw - just wondering if you think Buddhists at all distinct in this regard.
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Replying to @JoelBordeaux
I think Buddhism *was* exceptionally, perhaps uniquely, willing to engage with modernity, from Mongkut in 1850s to hippies in 1970s
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Replying to @Meaningness @JoelBordeaux
Maybe it is stuck in modernity and refusing to cope with postmodernity. Cfhttps://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism …
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Have to read post carefully, but think I generally agree re: fundamentalism. Can also see postmodernism as modernist self-cannibalism, tho
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Yes; end of post touches on that, I think!
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