{"id":933,"date":"2024-02-18T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/idolatry-desire-buddha-causation-and-malebranche\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T11:30:39","slug":"idolatry-desire-buddha-causation-and-malebranche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/idolatry-desire-buddha-causation-and-malebranche\/","title":{"rendered":"Idolatry, Desire, Buddha, Causation, and Malebranche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/idolatry-desire-buddha-causation?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Does causation have a moral dimension?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">This upload was &#39;occasioned&#39; (all puns intended) by my meeting with the amazing Steven Nemes yesterday at Joe&#39;s Real BBQ in charming old town Gilbert. Among the topics we discussed were idolatry, desire, and Buddhism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">He strode up, gave me a hug, and handed me three books he has recently published. A veritable writing machine, he&#39;s out-Fesering the phenomenal Ed Feser. And it&#39;s good stuff. I dove into his&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trinity-Incarnation-Post-Catholic-Steven-Nemes\/dp\/B0CHCJW9KG\">Trinity and Incarnation<\/a> this morning and will be discussing in future posts the shift in his views from orthodox or what he calls catholic (lower-case &#39;c&#39;) Christianity to a position reminiscent of Advaita Vedanta he calls &quot;Qualified Monism.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. Does causation have a moral dimension? This upload was &#39;occasioned&#39; (all puns intended) by my meeting with the amazing Steven Nemes yesterday at Joe&#39;s Real BBQ in charming old town Gilbert. Among the topics we discussed were idolatry, desire, and Buddhism. He strode up, gave me a hug, and handed me three books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/idolatry-desire-buddha-causation-and-malebranche\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Idolatry, Desire, Buddha, Causation, and Malebranche&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,211,387,189,403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-causation","category-desire","category-idolatry","category-malebranche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}