How do we return people to a more traditional, natural way of being?
I honestly don't think a return to the Church will help. It led us astray by basing our idea of how the world should be morally ordered in metaphysics and myth, rather than the all too human and biological. The Church has become corrupted by Liberalism and cannot be salvaged.
I think a new breed of 'Personal Development' (PD) gurus may be the vehicle we need, e.g. Jordan Peterson but more 'hardcore' and philosophical. I don't like Peterson generally, but he does bring intellectual depth to some rather trite PD themes that were popular in the 90s and early noughties.
Of course PD is individualistic, but Peterson does preach social obligation also. I think he balances the self/social aspects fairly well given our current age and ruling Liberalism. The self-referential, reflective aspect is absolutely crucial if you want to really appeal to people and change their moral behaviour, rather than just give them something to virtue-signal about like the Left and left-wing Churches (e.g. refugees, climate change, trans, etc).
The ancients through their schools of philosophy also maintained a strong self/reflective focus, balanced with social obligation. They maintained a naturalistic, communal, moral ordering/prescription of the world. They believed in God/gods, but these are not essential to their philosophy, though their Pantheism as a phenomoenonlogical worldview is much more supportable than Christian metaphysics imo.
I honestly don't think a return to the Church will help. It led us astray by basing our idea of how the world should be morally ordered in metaphysics and myth, rather than the all too human and biological. The Church has become corrupted by Liberalism and cannot be salvaged.
I think a new breed of 'Personal Development' (PD) gurus may be the vehicle we need, e.g. Jordan Peterson but more 'hardcore' and philosophical. I don't like Peterson generally, but he does bring intellectual depth to some rather trite PD themes that were popular in the 90s and early noughties.
Of course PD is individualistic, but Peterson does preach social obligation also. I think he balances the self/social aspects fairly well given our current age and ruling Liberalism. The self-referential, reflective aspect is absolutely crucial if you want to really appeal to people and change their moral behaviour, rather than just give them something to virtue-signal about like the Left and left-wing Churches (e.g. refugees, climate change, trans, etc).
The ancients through their schools of philosophy also maintained a strong self/reflective focus, balanced with social obligation. They maintained a naturalistic, communal, moral ordering/prescription of the world. They believed in God/gods, but these are not essential to their philosophy, though their Pantheism as a phenomoenonlogical worldview is much more supportable than Christian metaphysics imo.
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