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April 17, 2018Baptism and the self under siege
by Conor Sweeney, S.T.D.
One of the most pressing issues we face today is a crisis of the self, which just happens to also be a crisis of being, time, faith, morality, family, society, culture, you name it--a crisis of everything, really. I recently discovered online the recorded lectures of a colourful "West Texan" philosopher from the 1990's, sadly now deceased, who gives a wonderfully concise and highly entertaining account of the otherwise somewhat depressing story of this crisis.
The title of one of these lecture series is "The Self under Siege." In it our West Texan, Rick Roderick, considers the various developments of the last century that have influenced our notion of the self. ...
Roderick thinks that the fundamental question of the future will be whether there will be any selves left at all. ...
Is the situation grim? Surely. And yet, it's remarkably instructive. ...
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