cont'd

Postmodernism wants to eliminate religion and metaphysics altogether, calling it variously a bad dream, a neuroses, an opiate for the masses, only for sick souls, and other such things. Do you feel this is an adequate estimation of religion? Do you feel this is what should happen to it? Or do you think it is something real and inherent in our being and the truth of reality?

Worldview?

What elements would be important to stress or include in the formulation of a new worldview? Would we want to bring stuff from the past, or state a fully new worldview in our own modern day terminology? Do we suppose that ethics would play a part in it, or is ethics something that should be kept out of matters pertaining to worldview? Do we or should we have one or many worldviews? And if we have many, should those all pertain to something larger or more encompassing? Is there, that is, a supra-worldview or umbrella worldview that would inspire or include the rest, or should we continue with the idea of a strictly pluralist society? Is ethics something that could ever be codified globally?