You know Lausten I don’t mean to be a jerk just for the sake of being a jerk. After all, it isn’t like my mind hasn’t been in an intellectual “philosophical” struggle with the basic questions from my first memories, it’s what the vagabonding was all about. But, when I watch someone speak, I listen and process. Celebrity philosophers you can recognize when performance and books sales is foremost on the dude’s mind, which comes through.
I listen to Carrier and he isn’t any more perfect than any of the rest of us, but he tells a straight story and sticks to the substance of that story. He holds his own vanity in check, it’s the understanding he’s really after.
Earlier this morning I stumbled across this rapid pace talk by Dr. Paul Maxwell. He gives a history that simply impressed and impressed, and it rang true to my mind’s eye.
The way he tied together the progression of thought was very sweet.
I’d be curious what you thought of his summary:
How Any Idiot Can Memorize The Entire History of Philosophy Dec 13, 2018Philosophy can be insufferably hard. It doesn’t have to be.
Dr. Paul Maxwell breaks down the ENTIRE history of philosophy in 30 minutes.
Lots of videos make big promises and never deliver, it seems to me, Maxwell delivered. But, that’s just me, a ‘not well read’.
I did notice that it doesn’t seem that philosophers have ever actually addressed the fundamental Human Mindscape v Physical Reality divide.
Sure, sure the body mind problem, but look up the topic and all the competing though are sooo anthropocentric, totally misses the point.
This failure to recognize acts subliminally to infuse a feeling that it’s our thinking that defines Physical Reality.
Instead of up front recognizing our thinking defines our understand, not the Physical Reality itself.
Such an explicit awareness ripples into all aspects of our being a human.