So if anyone who reads this is up on their philosophy, I have a question I have been mulling over in my head to throw at you, and it has to do with Platonic Dualism. I have never thought that I liked Platonic Dualism and have always felt like that as a hermeneutic framework it often leads us to a misreading of scripture.
And yet, I have been finding myself saying things like, “Proclaiming the real — or the ideal — deconstructs the lie of the actual” (read my post on deconstruction). And on Sunday I preached a sermon arguing that sin is not simply about doing something that is or isn’t on a list, but rather it is about the pursuit of Jesus Christ — the ideal, again — and the choices we make lead us towards or away from this ideal One.
So, am I becoming a Platonic Dualist? Or is there something fundamentally different about deconstruction that i don’t yet grasp (or something about Platonic Dualism for that matter)? Is an ethics based on Christ as an ideal just another platonic ethical philosophy?
I am hoping somebody can help straighten me out on this because I don’t really wanna read another book on deconstruction. Though i do have Pete Rollins, “How Not to Speak of God” next in my reading Q.