05.07.09
Breaking the spell: Dennett’s rips off the term from religion
Dennett resurfaces on the issue of religion: Dennett on religion and Darwinism.
There was a lot of discussion here on Dennett over a year ago, and you can go through any amount of that via the search box:
Dennett, ‘breaking the spell’
The video opens with Dawkins lauding Dennett, but as a philosopher Dennett is something close to a mockery of the kind of (Kantian) critical thinking needed to confront questions of evolution.
Dennett’s Breaking The Spell is one of the MOST stupid books on religion in the past generation, rivalling even Dawkins, and Hitchens. The title itself is an insult to religions that wish to break the spell of mechanized consciousness in man, and a ripoff of that terminology.