Post by hume on Feb 18, 2007 22:05:19 GMT -8
8/6/06:
For all the talk about atheistic materialism's grip on our culture, in reality most people, even avowed atheists, seem to hold to a strong dualist (Cartesian) view of human nature. We are inner-focused; we think of our "real selves" as utterly separate from the bodies we happen to inhabit. Psychologists are basically soul doctors. This is so fundamental to our way of thinking that we generally aren't aware of it. It's difficult for us to comprehend that other peoples in other times -- including early Jewish culture -- did not share these assumptions.
For all the talk about atheistic materialism's grip on our culture, in reality most people, even avowed atheists, seem to hold to a strong dualist (Cartesian) view of human nature. We are inner-focused; we think of our "real selves" as utterly separate from the bodies we happen to inhabit. Psychologists are basically soul doctors. This is so fundamental to our way of thinking that we generally aren't aware of it. It's difficult for us to comprehend that other peoples in other times -- including early Jewish culture -- did not share these assumptions.
