entrust your electrics only to a qualified electrician, why take it to mean everyone should have a say in government rather than only a capable ruler.
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Rejecting Spinoza because of his theology or leftist readings of it is unnecessary because it doesn't have meaningful political implications.
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I dunno, it worked pretty well for capitalism (understood as secularised calvinist work ethic (as per Weber, Engels, Bataille, etc)).
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Good objection, although capitalism itself pre-existed that period by millenia
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I think that's just a case of good luck, terrible theology could happen to suggest a good political idea, good theology could be given political generalisation that turns out to be disastrous, so still better to keep those realms separate
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is that possible though, politics without theology?
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No harm in trying, I think it would come with looking at pol questions in a more technical way. What I'm thinking is that you don't have to fight the religious ideas at the root of the politics... maybe all people are fundamentally equal in some sense, doesn't mean they should...
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all get the vote, or have the same bank balances
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right, theology doesn't override pragmatic considerations, but the same applies vice versa
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Yes, I...I think
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Humans are inherently political creatures (this is easy to forget in our atomized time), and trying to isolate any area of human endeavors from religion is impossible (with a complete understanding of religion).
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I'll rephrase... Keeping religious ideas out of government. Isn't formalism a way of de-politicising how we govern?
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This was always my primary complaint with early NRx, tbh. The market is driven (at least in part) by religious beliefs, and removing them can only be temporary, creating a vacuum to be filled by other beliefs that claim they are not beliefs.
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What are some examples of religious beliefs driving markets? I'm not saying they don't just trying to get more of a handle on this
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Any belief, really, but the clearest is Healthcare.
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Markets for healthcare are driven by physical need in the most direct sense, how is it religious?
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What is physical need? It's all theological. Infanticide, euthanasia, cancer treatment for octogenarians, fertility treatment for 37+ year old women, elective surgery, antibiotics for minor infections, psychologists, psychopharmaceuticals, everything.
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True, religious ideas enter around those issues but the core of healthcare is just the alleviation of pain and dysfunction, I wouldn't see that as having a theological edge
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