Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research, https://t.co/15VkKiXSam - views expressed here my own.
Jun 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If I was to approach a critique of CRT I would simply approach from the vantage of class in terms of economics. I don't believe that race is the ultimate technology of control. Don't get me wrong, it's exceedingly important! But if we are talking about master ideologies of... 1/4
control, I don't believe this belongs to race. If critical theory is looking for the philosopher's stone in terms of explanation and theory, leading to universal emancipation, that belongs to the domain of Abstract Idealism. This is the axiom of all master ideology. Consider..2/4
Jun 29, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
IN DEFENSE OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL:
Ignorant-propaganda-pundits, and their stooges, keep on asserting that the thinkers that comprised the Frankfurt School were "Postmodern Relativists." THIS IS A FALSE TALKING POINT, as this short thread will unequivocally prove. 1/8
This picture is the content-outline of a lecture that Adorno gave critiquing Heidegger's philosophy. As you can see, the lecture directly attacks relativism and fascist philosophies that sought to make use of relativism in order to destabilize democratic society. 2/8
Jun 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Niebuhr Quote: "The most immediate cause of our distress could be defined as the inability and unwillingness of modern men and nations to re-establish community, or to reconstruct justice, under conditions which a technical civilization has created. We know, of course, that...1/5
"no human society has ever been free of corruption, of injustice and domination. But while there is thus no perfect peace or order in any human community, there are times and seasons when a tolerable justice, hallowed by tradition and supplemented by personal discipline...2/5
Jun 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD OBLITERATING ALVIN PLANTINGA [swiftly!]:
First his dogmatic position:
"...the internal instigation of the Holy Spirit working in concord with God's teaching in Scripture [the Protestant Canon] is a cognitive process or belief-producing mechanism that produces in...1/4
"us the beliefs constituting faith, as well as a host of other beliefs."*
1) for these claims Plantinga bears the burden of proof.
2) what is a "Holy Spirit" and
3) how does Plantinga know it exists?
The answer to these questions is because he read it in an... 2/4
