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[Anonymous No.11357426]

How can I be a philosopher and pure metaphysician and a Christian at the same time?

[Anonymous No.11357438]

Do it. Figure it out and write a book on how to reconcile/synthesize those things.

Or maybe you're just making this post because you think it looks cool on paper, but wouldn't actually pursue such an endeavor.

[Anonymous No.11357446]

language kills God.

[Anonymous No.11357449]

>>11357446
this kills the God

[Anonymous No.11357457]

>>11357426

You can't without redefining Christianity.

[Anonymous No.11357467]

>>11357426
imagine actually giving a shit about this. just go back to bed, pal.

[Anonymous No.11357476]

>>11357426
Aqiunas

[Anonymous No.11357518]

If you are a thinker, don't have a pre conceived idea of how to keep all of these things intact from the outset, I tend to think this doesn't work well at all. A big part of thinking seriously, as well as philosophical and scientific thought in general, is not knowing exactly what the result of thinking problems will be. The concept of Truth contains within it the potential for pre conceived ideas to be destroyed (even if what we access is never a completely indifferent or objective truth)

[Anonymous No.11357525]

>>11357518
do you like William James anon?

[Anonymous No.11357544]

>>11357525
I actually don't really know him. Why? Should I read him?

[Anonymous No.11357962]

>>11357426
read Phillip Sherrard and Jean Borella

[Anonymous No.11357999]

>>11357426
Only a protestant would have to ask this question

[Anonymous No.11358114]

>>11357426
seriously good question

[Anonymous No.11358118]

have faith?

[Anonymous No.11358161]

>>11357426

[Anonymous No.11358166]

>>11357449
this kills killing. resurrecting God.

[Anonymous No.11358183]

Aquinas

[Anonymous No.11358204]

You can't, OP. Even just an moderate delve into metaphysics quickly proves the Christian worldview unstable. Unless of course you just take the easy route of claiming things are ""metaphors"", in which case virtually any metaphysical worldview is true.

[Anonymous No.11358218]

>>11357426
By being Thomas Aquinas

[Anonymous No.11358376]

>>11357426
Very carefully.

[Anonymous No.11358387]

>>11357446
If God is real, why does he create such edgy faggots? Hashtag thinking emoji.

[Anonymous No.11358424]

>>11357426
You can't. You should (re)read the bible, but this time as a philosophical and mythic-historical book. View it as you view other non-christian books now.

[Anonymous No.11358824]

Unironically by starting with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.11358829]

>>11357449
>kills
>God

[Anonymous No.11358873]

>>11357518
>The concept of Truth contains within it the potential for pre conceived ideas to be destroyed

Trying to find god is trying to find the truth

Ergo, Looking for truth is looking for god

[Anonymous No.11358878]

>>11357446
only western language, colonizer!!

[Anonymous No.11358884]

>>11358873
woah

[Anonymous No.11358889]

>>11358873

Also, by this definition nothing is true because people's entire worldview is based on pre conceived ideas. Including the ideas related to the methodology of acquiring knowledge

[Anonymous No.11358899]

Schopenhauer is a Christian Philosopher.
He knew Jesus Christ represented something truely divine in a moral sense.

[Anonymous No.11358900]

>>11357426
>that's not the picture of jesus cradling a velociraptor
you all dissapoint me

[Anonymous No.11358913]

>>11358899
>Religion is for the great majority of people who are not capable of thinking but only of believing, and are susceptible not to arguments but only to authority. These systems may therefore be described as popular metaphysics

[Anonymous No.11358915]

>>11358913
He was an atheist, but his metaphysics can easily be bent towards a form of spinozism.

[Anonymous No.11358922]

>>11357426
by embracing zizek's reading of christianity

[Anonymous No.11358954]

>>11358922
What's zizek reading of Christianity?

[Anonymous No.11358955]

>>11357446
>God creates the word
>The word kills God
How

[Anonymous No.11359015]

>>11358873
What the fuck? Are you actually retarded? Symmetry doesn't just make any proposition true.

[Anonymous No.11359139]

>>11359015

>Are you actually retarded?

Are you a non-christian?

[Anonymous No.11359340]

Eh I left the Christian faith a long time ago, but if you wanna be a Philosopher while staying Christian, from my experience just be a very deep thinker while learning about certain concepts in Philosophy and formulating a Philosophical ideology of your own.

[Anonymous No.11359478]

>>11358899
he was known for telling people he was a Hindu and Buddhist

[Anonymous No.11359761]

>>11358889
I was just saying that if you accept concept of truth, or being able to engage with some type of truth even marginally, means that you will potentially have to revise everything you know or previously thought. Re the methodology of acquiring knowledge-There are unavoidable limits through which humans are necessitated to think and conceptualize problems sure, but this doesn't mean it's impossible to progressively engage with the Real at all via thinking problems or the critical progression of experimentation.

As far as the first thing you said I'm not really sure what you mean, what I was saying has more to do with the process of discovery and engagement with truth, just because most people base their entire worldview off of stupid pre conceived ideas doesn't really negate or have much to do with the point I was making.

[Anonymous No.11360196]

>>11357426
Why are implying an incompatibility?

[Anonymous No.11360218]

>>11358955
The cross.

[Anonymous No.11360482]

>>11358955
You create children and your children kill you. ez

[Anonymous No.11360507]

>>11358387
>such edgy faggots
>hashtag thinking emoji

[Anonymous No.11360547]

You must become yourself the vessel in which opposites are contained.

[Anonymous No.11360626]

>>11357426
Alvin Plantinga manages just fine doing both.