This provocative Spiegel interview with Czech moral economist Tomas Sedlacek nicely dovetails with the conversation surrounding David Graeber’s work on debt. The issues are framed as religious allegory:
SPIEGEL: Has the crisis in financial capitalism reduced greed to what it was once before, one of the seven deadly sins?
Sedláček: Mankind’s oldest stories tell us [...]
Tags:Adam and Eve·David Graeber·Edenic myth·greed·Marshall Sahlins·Tomas Sedlacek
Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about creation myths. By calling them “myths” it allows us to overlook, dismiss, or ignore them. This is a mistake. We should think hard about what these myths do and how they work. They are not just quaint relics of a pre-scientific past. They are not just [...]
Tags:Adam and Eve·allegory·anchoring effect·creation myths·creationism·creationist·Garden of Eden·identity·orientation·origins stories·Roger Lewin·view from nowhere
In May of this year, John Avise — an evolutionary biologist at UC-Irvine — published an article (“Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome“) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. The article, which attacked Intelligent Design “theory” on the ground that an omnipotent and [...]
Tags:accomodationists·Adam and Eve·Augustine of Hippo·Catholic theologians·Diarmaid MacCulloch·fall from grace·Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome·human genome·intelligent design·John Avise·justification for God·Leibniz·non-overlapping magisteria·non-sentient selection·problem of evil·problem of suffering·Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences·Protestants·rebellion·sin·Stephen Jay Gould·The Reformation·theodicy·theology·unintelligent design
