{"id":1492,"date":"2008-12-03T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2008-12-03T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T18:31:00","slug":"don-cupitt-on-a-non-realist-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Don Cupitt on a non-realist God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can be listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn3.libsyn.com\/philosophybites\/Don_Cupitt_on_Non-Realism_About_God.mp3?nvb=20081203182103&#038;nva=20081204183103&#038;t=078b051f95a8e17074b1a\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(An excellent site by the way, for anyone interested in philosophy).<\/p>\n<p>I once sat at Don Cupitt&#8217;s feet, listening to him give his spiel, which I was rather interested in at the time. As, in the course of the conversation, it became very clear that he had no understanding of the mystical tradition <span>from the inside<\/span> I lost interest in his point of view. Might be time for a reassessment.<\/p>\n<p>NB my view on non-realism is the same as Wittgenstein&#8217;s: (paraphrase from memory) &#8216;one man is a convinced realist, another a convinced idealist, and each teaches his child to cross the road accordingly&#8217;. <br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can be listened to here. (An excellent site by the way, for anyone interested in philosophy). I once sat at Don Cupitt&#8217;s feet, listening to him give his spiel, which I was rather interested in at the time. As, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,30,17,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-spirituality","category-theology","category-wittgenstein"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-o4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}