Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I … - Tim Crane

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It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.

Tim Crane

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

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Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

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Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

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The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

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Would it be better if religions were to disappear? I have no idea. Since I do not have any confidence in the association of truth with virtue, I am not sure if the world would be a better place if people believed more true things. But what is undeniable is that we cannot understand our own culture unless we recognise that it was formed, for good or bad, as a Christian culture. It's an illusion that we could somehow recover a human essence which is independent of the way it was created by culture.

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Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

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