What Happened to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty? The Cultural Impact of Nominalism – Episode 50

In this episode, we discuss more ways the realism/nominalism debate is having a dramatic impact on all we think and do as we wrap up our series on this important topic.

In these episodes, we discuss:

• Our culture’s confusion over what art is due to implicit nominalism
• How nominalism undercuts our knowledge of chemistry, biology, and ethics
• Ways in which nominalistic thinking seeps into our language and reinforces our confusion
• Nominalism as the seedbed for critical theory and other destructive cultural ideas
• The necessity of realism to understand our growth in Christ
• How nominalism cuts the heart out of Christian theology (and is assumed in Islamic theology)
• Final comments on the stakes of the realist/nominalist debate

Resources mentioned during our conversation:

• The first episode in this series: #45 – What Makes Things What They Are? The Realist/Nominalist Debate
• The second episode in the series: #46 – Good Reasons to Believe in Things We Can’t See: The Realism/Nominalism Debate
• The third episode in this series: #47: The Beliefs, Distinctions, and Cultural Impact of Nominalism: The Realism/Nominalism Debate,
• The fourth episode in this series: #48: God, Universals, and the Nature of Reality: The Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 4 (with special guest Paul Gould, Ph.D)
• The fifth episode in this series: #49: Application of the Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 5: The Hidden Battle Shaping Our Lives and Culture
• Madeline L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet – “Art is not a mirror, but an icon…”
• David Hull, The Metaphysics Of Evolution
• Hellen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody
• Jon Kelly, The Ontology of the Soul and Pauline Renewal of the Mind: How Holistic Dualism Accounts for the Restructuring of the Soul and Human Flourishing. Dissertation, University of St. Andrews

Recommended resources:

• P. Moreland and William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview