Onto-Theology as Religion, Religion as Onto-Theology (Concept Vlog)

Hoo boy, this was by far the densest material in my opinion, requiring more than a few rewinds and complete re-starts over the course of ~4-5 hours to grasp. But what important material.

Miguel de Jesus

If I understand your project correctly, is it do overcome the inherent skepticism post-modernism has towards any systematic theory or description of the Platonic "good". A few thoughts on this: - Is the Platonic "good" something that has existed and remained stable across the entire span of human history? Does the "good" life have the same characteristics for hunter-gather societies as ancient Greek/Roman societies as cavemen and cavewomen? Or is it contingent on human history and our development? - As a good materialist, I am more inclined towards a contingent view of the Platonic "good". - The big question is how to determine the epistemological foundations of what is "good"? How to determine the constraints to place on ourselves and society to be steered towards "the good" (which post-modernism is inherently skeptical of and automatically presumes to be arbitrary). - The foundations for the epistemology are material, but how to determine them? Some (like Sam Harris) would say that science can used, but the foundation of science relies on measurements. How do we measure "the good"? Seems like a dead end unfortunately. Also, a good description of your thesis that we all practice a religion (in some form) is by David Foster Wallace from his commencement speech 'This is Water' (a quote below,): 'Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.'