First post here, glad to see a network with a forum for religion, philosophy, and science. This will include all three.
Jordan Peterson seems to have struck a nerve in the world as he debates secular humanists like Sam Harris. Personally I think Harris along with Dawkins, Dennett, the late Hitchens, etc. are very shallow and arrogant forms of Nietzsche. I bring up Nietzsche since he went to the heart of the situation when famously stating "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? " Of course this quote is constantly taken out of context by everyone but Peterson has revived this line of thinking to show the materialists like Harris that we have stripped away the meaning of life by reducing everything (consciousness is the main topic) to the material world so what will we do now? Now that we are gods how will we create meaning?
I've been studying this topic for a while now and of course it splits off into many directions but it appears that we are about to go head first into a new axial age. Consciousness can no longer be contained by the materialistic framework that has dominated the world since the enlightenment. Any thoughts on this? I am a Christian and I haven't seen any other pathway that will provide meaning in the end of all things.
Jordan Peterson seems to have struck a nerve in the world as he debates secular humanists like Sam Harris. Personally I think Harris along with Dawkins, Dennett, the late Hitchens, etc. are very shallow and arrogant forms of Nietzsche. I bring up Nietzsche since he went to the heart of the situation when famously stating "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? " Of course this quote is constantly taken out of context by everyone but Peterson has revived this line of thinking to show the materialists like Harris that we have stripped away the meaning of life by reducing everything (consciousness is the main topic) to the material world so what will we do now? Now that we are gods how will we create meaning?
I've been studying this topic for a while now and of course it splits off into many directions but it appears that we are about to go head first into a new axial age. Consciousness can no longer be contained by the materialistic framework that has dominated the world since the enlightenment. Any thoughts on this? I am a Christian and I haven't seen any other pathway that will provide meaning in the end of all things.