impleri

After the previous post, i hope that the answer to Scot’s next question is fairly obvious. Scot asks:

#4: Is “emergent” or “integral” thinking superior to traditional absolutist rational thinking?

i think the short answer is no. Last time, i outlined what i believed to be the origins of “emergent” epistemology. As coming from “traditional absolutist rational thinking” and being in between that and its polar opposite of “relativist thinking,” i don’t find labeling it “superior” or “inferior” is of any use. It is simply a different approach which appears to be in greater use currently. Each approach has positive and negative side effects, and, with the current state of affairs in culture, philosophy, and theology, the “emergent” thinking is more popular. There will come a time when it is replaced by another approach and those people who contemplate it long and hard will ask the same question. Hopefully, they will also answer that theirs is not the “ultimate” or the “final” answer.