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This is a good point. Once you move beyond metaphysics/teleology and the human person gets cut in half--between an external realm governed by mechanical laws of cause and effect and an internal side absolutely unfettered by any restraint--the result is a strict fact/value dichotomy.

This kind of looks like the old gnosticism in which a person purifies their mind but indulges in bodily pleasures because the body doesn't matter in the end. There is a significant difference, though. The shiny new "secular" gnosticism doesn't see embodiment is something that will ultimately be transcended (i.e. after death); it sees it as something that is already transcended (i.e. right now).

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