It’s defined in the Elementary Forms of Relgious Life by Emile Durkheim. He argues that religion forms in moments of social effervescence, so to Matt’s point, god is the recognition of the social organism and our rationalization towards it as individuals. Wish Matt would read more actual theory to back up his sincerely good points but that’s why he’s on twitch instead of publishing books
Matt uses God as a shorthand for a much fuzzier concept
It’s defined in the Elementary Forms of Relgious Life by Emile Durkheim. He argues that religion forms in moments of social effervescence, so to Matt’s point, god is the recognition of the social organism and our rationalization towards it as individuals. Wish Matt would read more actual theory to back up his sincerely good points but that’s why he’s on twitch instead of publishing books
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have you heard the cushvlog where he goes in depth on idealism vs. materialism and attempts to address the "but that's an ideal too" argument
I gave up trying to keep track of which ones have what, I failed
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I think I foudn it, at least hte description has "idealism vs. materialism"
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think you're asking a valid question honestly, just felt like he unlocked something about this issue in my head at some point and watned to share