{"id":235,"date":"2011-01-29T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/01\/i-assign-you-reading\/"},"modified":"2012-09-15T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T00:08:13","slug":"i-assign-you-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2011\/01\/i-assign-you-reading.html","title":{"rendered":"I Assign You Reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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(Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s short).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve really appreciated all the reading suggestions that you\u2019ve made which culminated in the List of Doom<\/a> and the more manageable shortlist<\/a>. \u00a0I\u2019m going to keep writing about my reactions to the the books you recommended, and tomorrow I\u2019ll be writing about G.K. Chesterton\u2019s Orthodoxy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>The trouble is, that as I started drafting, I knew I wanted to reference an idea that I\u2019m not sure is in the common parlance. \u00a0\u2018Metaphysical backsliding\u2019 doesn\u2019t have a Wikipedia page, so I can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s a real word yet, but I knew I needed to reference it. \u00a0I don\u2019t want to have to take a lengthy digression in the middle of the post tomorrow (especially when other people have already explained it well), so would you all do me a quick mitzvah and read Eve Tushnet\u2019s essay: \u201cThe Birthday Cake of Existence<\/a>\u201c?<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t use the phrase \u2018metaphysical backsliding\u2019 in the essay, but the whole piece is addressed to that problem. \u00a0 Very briefly, metaphysical backsliding is the name my friends gave to having your metaphysics debunked by your ethics \u2013 a kind of proof by contradiction. \u00a0How sure do you have to be of an ethical principle to be sure that any metaphysical system which negates it must be wrong? \u00a0This question is coming back with a\u00a0vengeance\u00a0tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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