The difference between logical positivism and analytic philosophy on the one hand, and Cartesian dualism on the other, rests with their views of reality. Dualism sees mind and body, or objectivity and subjectivity, as both real and valid. The problem is how to relate them. Positivism and analytic thinking argue that the lived world, subjectivity, wonder, awe, and so on do not exist as irreducible reality. They are totally reducible to the simples of fact.
Ricoeurian thinking contrasts with Cartesian dualism and with positivism and analytic philosophy by saying all three movements should see themselves as having wrongly excarnated object from the lived world.
This is from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which, oddly enough, is trying to make wonder the key to reality. That seems a rather weird Quintessence to pick.
I have this suspicion that fact, subjectivity, and all other things are unified in Jesus, in whom we live and move and have our being. I have no clue what that works out to exactly, but I just suspect they're never going to figure it out as long as they ignore Him...
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I think you're right on.
Take God at face value for what he says--how He created all things to bring worship to Him, and how He has exalted Christ above all through the redemption of man... Lots of fact, subjectivity, logic, paradox, and wonder all wrapped up in Christ.
God is incomprehensibly amazing!
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