Graham Pemberton
1 min readMar 26, 2020

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It’s not completely clear whether you are an objective commentator on modern philosophy, or whether you subscribe to it. It seems like the latter, if I understand you correctly.

Trends and fashions in philosophy, in the grand scheme of things, are ephemeral; truth will eventually win out. At its time the Renaissance was a revival of, and return to, old ideas. It can happen again, and I look forward to it.

Voltaire and Hume were somewhat arrogant, and far too convinced of their own rightness. Rationalism and Empiricism appeal to the mind but not, as you say, to the heart. Which is more important? I’m sure you’re aware of the adage of Eastern religions, the mind is the slayer of the real.

No complaints about Copernicus; false theology needs correcting. The theories of Marx, Darwin, and Freud are deeply flawed, especially the latter two, and it’s surprising that so many people have taken them seriously. Hardly seminal figures, rather too infected by Enlightenment thinking. Jung will ultimately be a far more significant figure than Freud — as you were saying this in 1972, that is probably already true.

There is, of course, much that can be questioned and challenged in earlier Christian theology, but it is important not to throw out the baby with the bathwater! There is no religion higher than truth!

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Graham Pemberton
Graham Pemberton

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