Monday, November 7, 2016

More on teleology

Continuing from this post, Layman Pascal notes in his paper on metatheory that it is inseparable from the below:

"This enactment is analogous to a performative teleology. It signifies a potentially quantifiable condition of existential empowerment which, taken generally, impl
ies a universal proto-subjective impulse (or “slope”) which has been described by Wilber as 'eros' and by Nietzsche as 'the will to power'" (5.28).


However in this review of Keller's Cloud of the Impossible it says:
"As Keller rightly acknowledges, 'Theology, in its temptation to a Theory of Everything (TOE), is mirrored back to itself in the certainties and teleologies of Western civilization.' As she continues Keller offers the following as counterpoint: 'Yet there appears in cloud perspective no lack of purpose, but rather a myriad of purposes, often cross-purposes, including the purpose to counter teleological presumption. Such purposeful multiplicity offers no omega point, closure, final eschaton'” (166).  

See this FB IPS thread for the continued discussion.

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