{"id":9501,"date":"2012-08-02T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/02\/a-theism-materialism-combo\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T05:52:10","slug":"a-theism-materialism-combo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/02\/a-theism-materialism-combo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Theism-Materialism Combo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If the reality of spirit and the reality of free will cannot be encountered in ourselves, in the depths of our subjectivity, why should we think that they&#0160; can be encountered outside ourselves &#8212; in God, for example?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I don&#39;t understand those who attempt to combine theism with materialism about the human mind.&#0160; I don&#39;t deny that it is a logically possible combination.&#0160; But mere absence of formal-logical contradiction is no guarantee of metaphysical coherence.&#0160; (I develop the thought in &quot;Could a Classical Theist be a Physicalist?&quot; <em>Faith and Philosophy<\/em>, vol. 15, no. 2, April 1998, pp. 160-180.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If reality has a spiritual core we will be able to learn about it only by studying ourselves, by plumbing our subjective depths, not by reducing self to not-self, not by trying to understand spirit and consciousness in material terms.&#0160; They cannot be understood in those terms, and attempts to do so end up eliminating the very means of access &#8212; mind and language &#8212; to the material world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the reality of spirit and the reality of free will cannot be encountered in ourselves, in the depths of our subjectivity, why should we think that they&#0160; can be encountered outside ourselves &#8212; in God, for example? I don&#39;t understand those who attempt to combine theism with materialism about the human mind.&#0160; I don&#39;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/02\/a-theism-materialism-combo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Theism-Materialism Combo?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","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=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}