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Theology and Musn't | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 131
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14:55Now PlayingSome time ago, I recorded a long podcast on the New Discourses Podcast platform that touches upon the role and importance of theology, perhaps ironically for an agnostic/atheist. Titled "Meaning and the Necessity of Theology," ( ) it argues that theology plays an important metaphilosophical role in that it binds (or grounds) and orients a variety of philosophical programs, ideally toward God, or at least toward the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. I also gave a talk about a year and a half ago discussing the interplay of Reason and Faith ( ) as collaborating components that box out the prideful destructive paths of what amounts to esotericism, mysticism, or wizardry (I mean the same thing by all three of these terms in this case). In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers' only podcast, I riff off these ideas based on a conversation I had with some very smart people on a recent conference trip. The thrust is that theology provides, in addition to whatever else, a sense of the sacred and holy, which indicates by definition places not that we cannot go or even should not go but that we must not go, and this is a crucial piece of the puzzle for unlocking the power of human reason without inviting calamity.
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