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Loved this talk. “Don’t let the old goods go”. Made me think of a quote from Kierkegaard in his book Repetition, “Repetition and recollection are the same movement, just in opposite directions, because what is recollected has already been and is thus repeated backwards, whereas genuine repetition is recollected forwards.” Taking from Kierkegaard, I like to think of tradition as forward recollection. Great stuff as always Parker!
I wonder if Western and Christian philosophy’s public relations problem could benefit by drawing from Eastern ones just as the church fathers drew from Platonism. Eastern philosophy has always emphasized philosophy as a way of life and developed practices to live according to one’s nature and with one another’s. However, this order was not apprehended primarily by reason but existential and social.
I know of one book called "Christ the Eternal Tao" by Damascene Christensen that looks at Christ through the religious terminology of Taoism. I haven't read the book yet, but I've heard that the author argues that because the term "Tao" has a rich meaning to it (similarly to the Greek word "Logos"), Japanese translations of the Bible should use the term "Tao" in place of the word "Logos" in John's Gospel.
