How Does David Bentley Hart Believe Mind and Matter Relate?

[@RodrigoSevilha1984]

Mind as a concept looks dubious, as it can be related to meaning (spiritual), the source of life, as well as to knowledge (gnosis), the manifestation of life. Will the author recognize teleological implications to the immateriality of the mind? So far it feels like this is a struggle against crude materialism, just a defensive stance, but with no crucial positive affirmation. I am curious to know if he can find some metaphysical ground. Just absorbing matter into mind to me seems kind of pointless in the end.

[@colingallagher1648]

his metaphsyical ground is God, which he argues is just universal mind which then gives rise to matter bc one can deny matters being ultimatley but one cannot ultimatley deny the base level of mind

[@RodrigoSevilha1984]

@@colingallagher1648 Against materialism, yes, that always work, but mind in itself can be dialogical (gnosis, as knowledge of multiplicity), as well as noological (intuition of unity), and this further differenciation to me is crucial, because when the mind keep regarding the Multiple, it can be disperse and away from God just the same way as materialism does. In this aspect, materialism can be seen just as one more construction of the mind.

[@dubbelkastrull]

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