“The Struggle for Cognitive Liberty: Retrofitting the Self in Activist Theology,”

What is it about?

Human freedom is best understood as self-determination. Free action consists of deliberation, decision, and action. The free human person deserves dignity, that is, we each deserve to be treated as a moral end and not merely as a means to someone else's end. Neurocentrist philosophy—a form of eliminative materialism--based on neuroscience, however, threatens the extinction of the human self and, thereby, threatens to turn our experience of freedom and dignity into a mere delusion. This evacuates the moral agenda of every activist liberation theology. One task of today’s public theologian is to protect Cognitive Liberty, because it conceptually undergirds political, economic, and social liberation.

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Photo by Ruth Gledhill on Unsplash

Why is it important?

This is important because activist and liberation theology ignores what's going on in the natural sciences, and the discussion surrounding neuroscience could undercut the very foundation of the struggle for freedom.

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