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Where are the modern Chesterons? Where are the polyglot writers
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Where are the modern Chesterons? Where are the polyglot writers who can move from theology to editorial, from prose to verse, from critic to philosopher and do it with a light heart and a cheerful disposition that lifts the soul to read?
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>>7865585
>where are the fat, British Catholic sentimental blowhards
Council housing I imagine.
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>>7865594
savage
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>>7865594
Grauniad reader detected.
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not on /lit
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>>7865585
>the soul

Unfalsifiable nonsense.

Read Popper, Kripke, Wittgeinstein, Quine, and Sam Harris
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>>7865621
>Unfalsifiable nonsense.
I'm pretty sure he was using it as an expression.
Jesus man why's everyone here such a tryhard?
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Check Michel Tournier for instance. He represents everything you want maybe without the versified poetry. On the other hand:

Milan Kundera
Derek Walcott
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>>7865658
it's called the redpill
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>>7865621
>using Kirpke as example of materialism
Holy shit
>>7865585
Chesterton is supremely unique. But check out Belloc and Feser.
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>>7865621
Wittgenstein believed in a soul, y'dunce.
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>>7865757
And Kirpke is used in defense of dualism just about always, since he wrote.
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>>7865759
>>7865757
>People who respond negatively and quickly to people even suggesting through rhetoric the presence of a soul aren't properly educated.

Quelle suprise.
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>>7865762
You may notice how neither of us argued that a soul exists. Only that Kirpke and Wittgenstein are far from staple Harris tier materialists.
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>>7865774
I never argued that a soul existed either.
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>>7865780
I misread, sorry.
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>>7865621
>Unfalsifiable
whew lad *tips empiricism*
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>>7865621
>Sam Harris

This is bait, right?
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>Where are the polyglot writers who can move from theology to editorial, from prose to verse, from critic to philosopher and do it with a light heart and a cheerful disposition that lifts the soul to read?

Peter Sloterdjik strikes me as the perfect example of this.
He is a more difficult than Chesterton though.
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>>7867590
Tell me more. What are his notable works.
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