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Can Neuralink Destroy What Makes Us Human?
15 Sep 2024
00:14:47
Could Neuralink accidentally turn all its users into a hive mind? That’s what we’re going to be exploring in this episode where we take a look inside the brain and at the possibility for Neuralink’s high bandwidth and low latency to transform the nature of consciousness.
Why Leftists Should Have Loved Rich Men North of Richmond (But Didn't)
25 Aug 2024
00:14:43
If an alien arrived on this planet having read only the writings of Marx, Proudhon and other great leftist socialist thinkers, they would be very surprised by the reaction to Rich Men North of Richmond. Oliver Anthony's song was loved by some and hated by others with the usual weird subtextual energies of the Culture Wars infusing both. This episode looks at why, from a historical theoretical it could have been otherwise. And why it wasn't.
0:00 Introduction 2:42 Why the Left Should Love Rich Men North of Richmond 5:08 Why the Left Hated Rich Men North of Richmond 7:42 The Chthonic Populists and Pure Woke 11:31 What to do about the Oliver Anthonys?
Subconscious vs. Unconscious
21 Apr 2024
00:10:08
In approaching the underworld there are a couple of terms that people use. Sometimes it can get a bit confusing who's using what and what we should be using. In this episode we look at the term subconscious vs unconscious and what the meaning and background is of each. As we'll see it wasn't always so clear cut — the French psychological heritage from Pierre Janet started with one term then with Freud it bounced to another and Jung and Adler followed in their direction now using unconscious instead of subconscious.
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:51 The Origins: Janet and Freud
4:03 A Tale of Two Usages
8:41 Which one is right?
Reality vs Archetype — The Two Types of Romcom
07 Apr 2024
00:13:54
In this palette cleanser we are going to talk about the philosophy of romcoms for a change. I reckon this should remove any accusations of important work being done on The Living Philosophy. We'll be looking at two romcoms — the classic Norah Ephron When Harry Met Sally and the lesser known Just Like Heaven starring Reese Wetherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.
One is reflective of a type of art that strives for psychological accuracy (Dostoevsky, When Harry Met Sally) category — while the second category (Just Like Heaven, Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo) dispense with reality and works at the hyperreal level of the archetypal underworld.
⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:30 The True vs the Fantastic 3:15 Just Like Heaven 3:56 When Harry Met Sally 6:12 The Unrealistic Just Like Heaven 7:31 The Fantastic As Archetypal Dynamism 10:52 The Power of Archetypal Storytelling
It's rare that you encounter a fresh take on a path as well-trodden as happiness. I've read a lot of books on the topic and I have to say that Ryan Bush's take is fresh and yet simultaneously ancient. I think this is part of the reason I'm so enthusiastic about it: it integrates a trend in academic philosophy that I've yet to see anyone else talk about: Virtue Ethics. This is an ethical approach to philosophy that goes all the way back to the ancients especially Socrates, Aristotle and the Stoics. Bush integrates this old esteemed tradition with very 21st century fields like Cognitive Science and neuroscience to produce a thought-provoking map of the good life that I can't recommend highly enough.
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📚 Further Reading:
- Pan W, Liu C, Yang Q, et al. (2016) The neural basis of trait self-esteem revealed by the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations and resting state functional connectivity. _Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience_ 11(3): 367–376.
- Bush R. (2023) _Become Who You Are_. USA: DTM Press
- Davey CG, Pujol J and Harrison BJ (2016) Mapping the self in the brain’s default mode network. _NeuroImage_ 132: 390–397.
We modern serfs have forgotten something: we've forgotten how to live. You don't question the meaning of life when leisure is the heart of life rather than work. But with the rise of modern urban life, the intrinsic mode of living has died at the hands of the instrumental mode of life. Our entire lives have been colonised by "utility". We don't relax or rest for their own sake anymore — now we rest so that we are more productive. In this episode we explore these two relationships with time: the leisurely intrinsic mode and the future-oriented instrumental mode.
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📚 Further Reading:
Burkeman O (2021) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. First edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
De Botton A (2005) Status Anxiety. First Vintage International edition. New York: Vintage International.
Seligman MEP (2013) Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Paperback.
The Prophet — the Archetype of Societal Renaissance
28 Jan 2024
00:14:22
Before the Axial Age the religious archetypes were those of the Priest and the Magician. But with the increased complexity and evolution of society a new archetype emerged: that of the Prophet. This is the archetype of liminal transformation in the midst of a society paralysed by its own success. The Prophet comes in from the edge of inside and shows the society where it has lost its way.
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📚 Further Reading:
- Szakolczai Á (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies in social and political thought 36. London ; New York: Routledge.
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
01:14 Priests and Magicians
03:33 Prophets
04:13 Power and the Priest
06:11 Refusal of the Call
08:19 Personal Aspect and Revelation
09:16 Exemplary and Ethical Prophecy
11:31 Elitist Exemplarys
12:34 Conclusion
Justice vs. Vengeance — Is There a Difference?
31 Dec 2023
00:15:04
Philosopher and anthropologist Rene Girard once described justice and public vengeance. Nietzsche expressed the same in his Genealogy of Morals. Why then do we value justice so highly and look down so judgingly on revenge? And what, if this is true, is the purpose of justice? How is it in any way different from vengeance? The answer is that it is profoundly different and in this video we explore why.
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
01:33 Rehabilitation vs Punishment
06:29 The Dark Side of Justice
10:15 The Hegemony of Justice
13:26 Further Avenues for Research
Is Equality the Enemy?
17 Dec 2023
00:18:33
Would you rather live in a better world or a happier one? In this video we are going to explore how equality has made the world a better place but also how, like the Edenic apple of knowledge, it has come with a cost. The world looks better from the outside but seen from the subjective side it seems that things have only gotten worse.
This is following up on the recent episode on Nietzsche's concept of ressentiment that we examined in the previous episodes and follows along our explorations in to the social and political radical theme of modern times.
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📚 Further Reading:
- De Botton A (2005) _Status Anxiety_. First Vintage International edition. New York: Vintage International.
- Nietzsche FW (2000) *The Genealogy of Morals* in _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. ed. by Martin Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.
- Orlowski, J. (2020) _The Social Dilemma_ Netflix.
- Scheler M (1915) Ressentiment. 1915.
- Seligman MEP (2013) _Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment_. Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Paperback.
- Tocqueville A de, Bevan GE, Kramnick I, et al. (2003) _Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America_. Penguin classics. London: Penguin.
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:07 Democracy in America
5:21 The Shadow of Equality
8:21 In the 21st Century
9:59 Medieval Eden
12:00 What to do with Equality
13:48 The Limitations of Meritocracy
Liminality and the Values of the Left
19 Nov 2023
00:16:14
In The Ritual Process the anthropologist who put Liminality on the map Victor Turner gave a list of contrasts between Liminality and Structure. There is an uncanny resemblance between these values and the values of Leftism. That is what we are going to explore in this episode which in the final episode in our exploration of Victor Turner's work in this field.
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- Szakolczai Á (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies in social and political thought 36. London ; New York: Routledge. - Turner VW (1995) _The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure_. The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures 1966. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 01:31 Liminality 03:39 Leftism 05:09 The Liminal Left - Economic/Political 07:10 Authority and Liminality 10:07 The Cultural Left and Liminality 13:39 Conclusion
The Homelessness Crisis — Where Individualism Breaks Down
22 Oct 2023
00:09:28
"When all you have is a hammer every problem begins to look like a nail." Good philosophy is always trying to break up and recreate its map of the world. In this episode we are going to break up the Individualist model of the world a little and broaden our map to include the Collectivist perspectives. We talk a lot about Nihilism and the Meaning Crisis as if they are only to be understood as individual problems but the challenges and solutions that face us in the 21st century can't be understood merely from one angle. This episode is a case study in the Homelessness Crisis and how it looks from the vantage points of Individualism and Collectivism.
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📚 Further Reading: - Jerusalem Damsas's article for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homelessness-affordable-housing-crisis-democrats-causes/672224/ - Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page's site with some fascinating graphs and a link to their book: https://homelessnesshousingproblem.com/
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:48 Homelessness: a Collective Problem 5:03 A vicious circle 6:55 Conclusion
Liminality X Nihlism — The Real Cause of the Meaning Crisis
08 Oct 2023
00:17:23
Is Liminality the real root of the crisis of Nihilism? In this episode we are going to explore this question and whether Liminality is a better diagnosis of the Meaning Crisis than Nietzsche's Death of God. When looking at Turner's qualities of Liminality the relations between it and Nihilism are striking; if nothing else if provides us an alternative angle on the crisis — a different perspective from which to behold the quagmire we find ourselves in. What is particularly appealing about the Liminality-centred explanation is that it can explain Nihilism AND the value system of the Left from Marx to Social Justice — a theme we'll be exploring in a future video.
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📚 Further Reading: - Nietzsche FW and Kaufmann WA (1974) _The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs_. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books. - Turner VW (1995) _The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure_. The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures 1966. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 02:38 What is Liminality? 05:36 Nihilism 09:28 Liminality and Nihilism 12:55 Progressivism and the Dangers of Liminality 14:34 Curing the Meaning Crisis
Self-Actualisation is Not Enough
11 Aug 2024
00:12:50
In this video we are going to tackle a challenging question: what is self-actualisation isn't what we should be doing; what if instead it is a big cope — a way of burying our head in the sand (rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic; playing our fiddle while Rome burns — choose your preferred analogy) while the world burns.
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For Nietzsche The Last Man stood as the opposite of the Ubermensch and the great danger of the "levelling" tendency of modernity. In this episode we are going to look at what Nietzsche meant by the Last Man and how his prophecy has come through. We look at The Last Man in 21st century society and what Nietzsche got right even while we should be cautious of fully embracing his ideal. ____________________
📚 Further Reading: - Joseph S (2011) _What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth_. New York: Basic Books. - McGonigal K (2015) _The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It_. New York: Avery, a member of Penguin Random House. - Seligman MEP (2013) _Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment_. Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Paperback. - Nietzsche FW (1976) *Thus Spoke Zarathustra* in _The Portable Nietzsche_. New York: Penguin Books. - Nietzsche FW and Kaufmann WA (1974) _The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs_. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books. - Nietzsche FW and Kaufmann WA (2000) _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. Modern Library ed. New York: Modern Library.
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 01:50 The Last Man in Thus Spoke Zarathustra 05:13 The Values of the Last Man 09:25 The Last Man in the 21st Century
Liminality — Our World in One Word
10 Sep 2023
00:25:13
We live in an age of Liminality. It's at the roots of the Meaning Crisis of Nihilism and Leftist value structures. Coming from the same Latin word as subliminal (*limin* meaning "threshold") it is a term that has entered the mainstream from its roots in Anthropology with the work of Victor Turner.
Victor Turner developed the concept in his work The Ritual Process. In this episode we will be answering the question what is Liminality and we'll be exploring it and its two cousins Marginality and Inferiority and how this trifecta shape the value structure of all society in the interplay between their Communitas/Antistructure with the world of politics economics and law — of status, power and competition — (which Turner calls "Structure"). ____________________
📚 Further Reading:
- Szakolczai Á (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. London: Routledge. - Turner VW (1995) _The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure_. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:10 The 3 Types of Antistructure 5:59 Liminality 10:27 Liminality: Beyond Ritual 14:10 Marginality 18:50 Inferiority 22:17 Overlapping Groups
Addicted to Apocalypse: Our Psychological Need for the End
27 Aug 2023
00:22:51
Apocalypse is traditionally a religious idea but the secular age has been more alight with an Apocalyptic fervour than any preceding age. In this episode we explore why by looking at predictions through the ages and across cultures in an attempt to triangulate on what it is about the end of the world that is so sticky to the human psyche. We are going to explore the archetypal phenomenon of the end of the world and see why Apocalypse remains so compelling.
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⌛ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:10 Secular Apocalypse 07:06 A History of Prediction 08:23 Theme 1: Calendrical Apocalypse 11:35 Theme 2: Social Chaos 13:09 Social Chaos in the Islamic World 13:59 Social Chaos in Christian History 15:54 Social Chaos in the 19th Century 18:22 Social Chaos in the 21st Century
Why Jung Hated Philosophers
13 Aug 2023
00:24:20
Jung once described himself as a failed philosopher. Instead he chose the path of science with psychology. It is surprising then to see what Walter Kaufmann calls Jung's "wildly emotional overreaction" to thinkers like Heidegger and Kierkegaard. Is philosophy Jung's Shadow? In this episode we explore what Jung said about the philosophers and why.
For this we'll draw on letters written by Jung and look at the tension in him between what he calls his No. 1 Personality and his No. 2 Personality and then we're going to explore whether this hatred of the philosophers might not come from a fault-line in Jung's own psychology. ____________________
📚 Further Reading: - Jung, C.G. *Memories, Dreams, Reflections* - Jung, C.G., 2012. _The red book: A reader's edition_. WW Norton & Company. - Jung, C.G., 2015. _Letters of CG Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950_. Routledge - Jung, C.G., 2021. _CG Jung Letters, Volume 2: 1951-1961_. Princeton University Press - Freud, S. and Jung, C.G., 1994. _The Freud-Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and CG Jung_. Princeton University Press. - Nietzsche, F., 1992. _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. Modern Library. - Kaufmann, W. ed., 1992. _Freud, Alder, and Jung: Discovering the Mind_. Routledge. ________________
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:42 Beyond their proper bounds 7:21 A bunch of neurotics 11:06 The Unlived Jung 15:48 Philosophy: Jung's Shadow
Camino de Santiago: Why I Hiked and What I Learned
12 Jul 2023
00:31:11
A summary of my Camino experience: what I hiked, why I hiked and what I learned.
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The Rural vs the Far Left — from Marx to AOC
18 Jun 2023
00:08:45
83% of America's counties voted for Trump in the 2020 but these counties account for only 29% of America's GDP. Why aren't this lesser off rural/exurban population voting for the party who theoretically are most aligned with their interests i.e. the Democratic Socialists?
The answer might lie with Karl Marx who saw this population as "rural idiots" representing "barbarism within civilisation". For Marx only the urban working class could bring about societal transformation. Every successful Communist revolution had to unlearn this bias of Marx.
Looking at the American political situation today we see two Americas: a rural/exurban ocean and a densely populated urban and suburban archipelago. And like Marx rather than his successful revolutionary followers, the Far Left of today dismiss these ruralites as Conservative Reactionaries rather than the most readily mobilisable support.
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:23 The Urban Rural Divide 2:55 The Deeper Roots of the Problem 5:52 Revisiting America's 21st-century Divide
Structure vs. Communitas — the Two Modes of Human Society
28 May 2023
00:17:14
Anthropologist Victor Turner, who popularised the term Liminality, found that human society has two modes of interrelatedness that function like a yin and yang — mutually dependant and without which human life would be impossible. Structure is the mode of status and hierarchy in society; Communitas of love, compassion and myth.
These two modes show up in very interesting ways in our current society. These can be fruitfully mapped over with the religious and scientific mindsets; with the Constrained and Unconstrained Visions of Thomas Sowell's work; with the Order and Chaos of Jordan Peterson's work Maps of Meaning and with the left- and right-hemispheres of the brain in Iain McGilchrist's work.
None of these are 1:1 mapovers but there's something rich even in this difference. This episodes marks the beginning of our explorations in this fertile model of human life. ____________________
📚 Further Reading: - Turner, V. _The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure_ - Turner, V. _Revelation and divination in Ndembu ritual_
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:30 Structure 5:30 Communitas 6:32 The Communitas Mode of Being 10:01 Structured Communitas 13:12 Religion and Communitas
Reactionary: Not Just a Right Wing Phenomenon
07 May 2023
00:09:27
The term "reactionary" is associated with the right-wing but like the term radical this term is a concept that transcends the one-dimensional left/right model. That being said it is almost exclusively applied to the right and these days it is used almost exclusively as an insult rather than a self-identifier.
It was originally synonymous with right-wing, but it doesn't have to be a right-wing phenomenon, as there are left-wing reactionaries as well. The term has its origins in the French Revolution, where the National Assembly was divided into those favoring revolution on the left and the supporters of the king on the right. The term "reactionary" refers to the political group who wanted to return to pre-modern feudal monarchy. Today, a reactionary is someone who wants to go back to a previous time that was more glorious. While conservatives want to conserve the status quo, progressives want to pull the system towards improvement, and reactionaries want to push the system back.
The reactionary idealisation of the past is similar to the Fascist parties of the mid-20th century. Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again" is a pure example of the reactionary spirit, and similar sentiments were present in Britain around Brexit. Left-wing reactionaries can also exist, and they may see something very wrong in the current system, but their solution is backwards towards some idealised past. ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!)
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:54 Reactionary Origins in the French Revolution 2:51 Reactionism Today 5:45 Left Wing Reactionaries 7:34 The Evolution of a Term
What is a Radical? — the Political Archetype of Our Time
16 Apr 2023
00:08:50
Radical is a word that's thrown around a lot these days but whose meaning is left a bit vague. This episode explores the meaning of the term radical and why it is such an accurate finger on the pulse of the Culture Wars. From Trump and Bernie to Marx, Antifa and the Proud Boys our age embodies the spirit of radicalism.
This is the first in a new theme on the channel where we're going to unpack more political philosophy terminology and schools of thought. ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!)
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:49 The Two Faces of Radicalism 4:19 Mobilisation 6:13 Closing Remarks
God is Dead: What Nietzsche REALLY Meant
10 Apr 2023
00:13:05
God is dead - Nietzsche's most notorious line and also one of his most commonly misunderstood. The Nietzsche God is dead statement is a New Atheist sentiment but the warning of a Postmodernist. It is commonly mistaken for a modernist sentiment proclaiming the death of Christianity’s God. But that is not what Nietzsche intended. It was not a declaration of atheism; atheism was already a trivial point of view (if still controversial) by the end of the 19th century. Nietzsche was not echoing a common sentiment but pushing beyond to its unseen implications. Nietzsche was pioneering the postmodern perspective. This is obvious from the aphorism it occurs in. In The Gay Science Nietzsche tells the parable of the madman who declares the death of God. The madman’s audience are not religious believers or members of the Church as one would expect from a declaration of God’s death. The audience was a crowd of jeering non-believers. This points to the real intention of Nietzsche’s statement. In this episode we are going to explore the meaning of this statement in light of this insight and see what exactly Nietzsche meant by his provocative statement that God is dead and we have killed him. _________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy ________________ 🎶 Music Used: 1. Magnetic — CO.AG Music 2. End of the Era — Kevin MacLeod 3. Mesmerise — Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic Subscribe to CO.AG Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav... _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 God is Dead: Introduction 1:33 The Madman's Audience 5:03 Nietzsche Contra 10:10 The Real Meaning of God’s Death _________________
Enlightenment, Non-Attachment and Other Toxic Spiritual Con Jobs
28 Jul 2024
00:17:50
In this episode, we look at why you should listen to South Park's Butters over modern Buddhist gurus. We talk about the sales pitch used by spiritual gurudom to get people hungry for Enlightenment while hiding the truth about the awful reality of that path. Fun fun fun.
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- Mingyur, R.Y. and Swanson, E., 2010. _Joyful wisdom_. Random House.
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3:32 Everything is S ** T
6:08 The Horrors of Spiritual Attainment
8:40 Who's Falling for It?
10:31 Who It's Really For
12:37 Spiritual Bypassing
A Cure for Nihilism? | Everything Everywhere All At Once
26 Mar 2023
00:19:23
Spoiler Alert - this look at the philosophy of the Metamodern masterpiece Everything Everywhere All At Once deals with the whole movie so there will be spoilers. The Nihilism of the internet age's apology Everything Everywhere All At Once is an amazing movie. It is one of those rare movies that is not only unbelievably entertaining but also incredibly profound. Not only does it give a brilliant exposition of Nihilism but it offers a diagnosis of Nihilism's causes and proposes a way past it. It's a beautiful funny rollercoaster through the multiverse that has so much heart. Like any Metamodern work of art it oozes sincerity beneath its absurd humour. This podcast is my attempt (after many drafts approaching its philosophy from many different angles) at giving voice to the philosophy of this 7x Oscar-winning classic. Hope you enjoy it _________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!)
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:59 The Black Bagel - Nihilism Embodied 10:08 Behind the Nihilist Mask 13:36 Googly Eyes - the Anti-Bagel 15:11 (Rootsy) Love is the Answer
Vegans vs Carnivores: the Culture War's Strangest Frontier
26 Feb 2023
00:22:24
It's become common to appeal to our evolutionary past to justify present ideologies. In this episode we are honing in on a vegan account of human diet and contrasting it with a less ideologically motivated piece published by The Atlantic.
There's a few interesting discoveries to be had. For one it's always interesting to see how subtle warpings of facts can lead to very different perspectives. It's also interesting to contemplate what such work tells us about the worldview of the writer. It's also interesting to see how evolutionary arguments are misused in the name of an agenda.
All of this comes into play with this PETA article on veganism but there's a mirror of this sort of ideological work going on among the Carnivore and Paleo subcultures online.
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- PETA article: https://www.peta.org/living/food/really-natural-truth-humans-eating-meat/ - The Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/when-humans-became-meateaters/463305/ - A carnivore history article: https://fitawakening.co.uk/2022/08/17/carnivore-history/
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Ego: A Defence
05 Feb 2023
00:22:25
This episode is an attempted revaluation of the much maligned Ego. Drawing on Jung, Freud, New Age thinking and the myth of Icarus and Daedalus we pick apart the many meanings of Ego as we try to unearth the infamous reputation of Ego in the culture and to restore to it some of its lost dignity. ____________________ Further Reading: - Basic Writings of Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann - The Freud Reader edited by Peter Gay
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:50 Ego's Origins 3:55 The Heroic Freudian Ego 5:40 The Jungian Ego Container 9:20 The Evil New Age Ego 12:04 The Inflated Mainstream Ego Part 1: Nietzschean Decadence 15:59 The Inflated Mainstream Ego Part 2: Icarus and Daedalus
Nietzschean Spirituality — Dionysus vs. The Buddha
15 Jan 2023
00:17:33
In this episode we are going to explore Nietzschean spirituality in contrast to Buddhist spirituality (and other Ascetic Ideal spiritualities and religions). This topic was prompted by a question from Kevin Sherman on Patreon so thanks to Kevin for the interesting spark.
This script kind of poured out of me and it was only afterwards that as I was listening to it again and again in editing that I found myself inhaling through my teeth a bit with the critique of Buddhism. I feel like I was a bit heavy-handed in places and I'm sure many of you will agree. My qualification for this is that I wanted to be a little bit provocative around the spiritual element to cut past a lot of the inflation you find in New Age circles but in hindsight I feel I didn't give enough space for the value of Buddhism. Maybe I need to make an episode explaining why Buddhism is amazing to counterbalance and in what ways it is preferable to Nietzschean spirituality. In the meantime I thought I'd include this qualification here in the description where I'm not quite sure anyone will see it. For those of you who do read the description, hello.
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Further Reading: - Basic Writings of Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann (contains full texts of The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo) - The Portable Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann (contains Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist) ________________
⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 6:01 The Binary of Ascetic Ideal and Worldliness 8:33 A Counter-Ideal 12:48 Against Enlightenment
Why it Matters: Nietzsche
03 Jan 2023
00:11:33
Why it matters is back! And this time we're talking about why Nietzsche matters. We're going to look at why I find Nietzsche so important and why you should too. ___________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 Discord ▶ https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 _________________ #thelivingphilosophy #philosophy #nietzsche #existentialism #psychoanalysis
Friedrich Nietzsche | The Long Version
14 Dec 2022
00:25:50
In this deeper dive into philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche we are going to look at his big ideas and his overall philosophy through the orienting generalisation of his thought as being health vs. decadence. Through this lens we can fruitfully place Nietzsche's "no-saying" work where he critiques Christianity, science and philosophy as well as his "yes-saying" work in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (with Zarathustra's three great ideas of the Ubermensch, the Eternal Recurrence and the Will to Power) and his fascination with the Greek god Dionysus.
Nietzsche is commonly known as the Father of Existentialism but he could just as well be called the Father of Psychoanalysis or the Father of Postmodernism. Along with Marx and Freud, Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers in the past 200 years. ____________________
📖 Further Learning: Videos: If you're interested in learning more about Nietzsche's biography and philosophy, there's a whole playlist of episodes on him here:
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_________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:52 The Crisis of Nihilism 10:02 Decadence I: Rationality 10:58 Decadence II: Morality 12:14 The Ascetic Ideal and Slave Morality 15:15 False Counter-Ideals: Science and Democracy 16:32 Health: Nietzsche's Counter Ideal 17:00 Health I: Dionysus and Greek Tragedy 18:57 Health II: Zarathustra 19:41 Zarathustra I: the Eternal Recurrence 20:37 Zarathustra II: the Übermensch 21:36 Zarathustra III: the Will to Power 22:09 Nietzsche New Metaphysics 25:23 Signoff
Friedrich Nietzsche
30 Nov 2022
00:05:18
Friedrich Nietzsche is commonly known as the Father of Existentialism but he could just as well be called the Father of Psychoanalysis or the Father of Postmodernism. Along with Marx and Freud, Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers in the past 200 years.
Nietzsche's ideas are famous (and due to much manipulation of his work, infamous) — the Will to Power, the Ubermensch/Overman and the Eternal Recurrence are the three great doctrines of Nietzsche's Zarathustra. They form his positive philosophy. This is the Health side of the equation.
But these positive doctrines are only way half of Nietzsche's philosophy. The other side is his critique of Christianity and of Ascetic Ideals in general, his enquiries into the origin of morality and his explorations of the crisis of Nihilism
In this brief episode we look at Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy through his distinction between Decadence and Health. This video is a taster of Nietzsche and will be followed up in a future episode by a much deeper dive. ____________________
📚 Further Reading: - Basic Writings of Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann (contains full texts of The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo) - The Portable Nietzsche edited by Walter Kaufmann (contains )
The Living Philosophy is 2!
15 Nov 2022
00:09:23
The Living Philosophy is two years old! Two years ago the 100 videos in 100 days began. But before there was the Living Philosophy, there was The Living Myth — an Irish mythology podcast with my friend Barry that gave me my first taste of YouTube and podcasting.
I thought it'd be nice to mark this second anniversary by looking back at the origins of this channel. It's also an auspicious time because I've been having some cogitations about how it's been going and how I want to take things further and I've decided to spend the month of November making an episode on Nietzsche.
Beyond that I've also been thinking about this canonical video approach in general and the Obsidian work so yeah there's a lot moving and right on the point of the third year. So exciting times.
Thanks to Matt for the suggestion about making a masterpiece. Check out Ideas Sleep Furiously's revamped Substack publication that's got a lot of exciting things happening at the moment: https://ideassleepfuriously.substack.com/
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Soren Kierkegaard - Introduction to the Father of Existentialism
01 Nov 2022
00:20:18
This is a deeper dive into the Father of Existentialism Soren Kierkegaard. Following on the 5-minute introduction to Kierkegaard, this episode looks in more depth at the philosophy and life of Soren Kierkegaard and why he is one of the greatest philosophers ever.
In this episode we look at the three phases of Kierkegaard's work: the First Authorship (and its masterpieces Either/Or and Fear and Trembling), the Second Authorship (including Kierkegaard's third masterpiece Sickness Unto Death) and the final year of his life where he took the gloves off and directly attacked the church. We also look at the "long foreground" to Kierkegaard's work — the curse on his family and his broken engagement to Regine Olsen.
Kierkegaard was one of the most prodigious philosophers. In 1843 he published three books in a single day (one of which Fear and Trembling is commonly placed in the canon of great philosophy). In the space of three years he published sixteen books. These books were written using various pseudonyms with many different stylistic devices. This was all part of Kierkegaard's style of "Indirect Communication". Like Socrates he didn't want to give answers he wanted to awaken the quest for individuality in his readers.
Kierkegaard was part of the select group of Christian Existentialism (his most famous peer being Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky). Like Nietzsche he hated the Church. His form of Christianity was about the self-making quest of Faith. This self is forged out of the dizzying Anxiety of choosing. This choice of faith can only be made by the individual and this is why Soren Kierkegaard spent his career trying to call people away from the "levelling" of Modernity which was turning everyone into "The Crowd" and away from the Church which kept its congregation like children. He was calling them to the "highest passion" of faith. He was calling them to forge their own selves and not give into the inauthenticity of Despair. In this introduction to Kierkegaard we take a brief look at the most compelling reasons why Kierkegaard is relevant today. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading:
- McDonald, William, "Søren Kierkegaard", _The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/kierkegaard/ - McDonald, William, _Søren Kierkegaard (1813—1855)_, _Internet encyclopedia of philosophy_. Available at: https://iep.utm.edu/kierkega (more in-depth than the Stanford one. Highly recommend) - Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Graff (https://amzn.to/3Sx1Tm5) - Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard (https://amzn.to/3DrOVBC) - Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard (https://amzn.to/3TxiNCv) - Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard (https://amzn.to/3TxiY0D)
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Soren Kierkegaard in 5 Minutes - The Father of Existentialism
25 Oct 2022
00:04:47
Soren Kierkegaard is commonly known as the "Father of Existentialism". This brief introduction to Kierkegaard looks at why you should care about the Danish philosopher and why his work is still relevant today.
Kierkegaard was one of the most prodigious philosophers. In 1843 he published three books in a single day (one of which Fear and Trembling is commonly placed in the canon of great philosophy). In the space of three years he published sixteen books. These books were written using various pseudonyms with many different stylistic devices. This was all part of Kierkegaard's style of "Indirect Communication". Like Socrates he didn't want to give answers he wanted to awaken the quest for individuality in his readers.
Kierkegaard was part of the select group of Christian Existentialism (his most famous peer being Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky). Like Nietzsche he hated the Church. His form of Christianity was about the self-making quest of Faith. This self is forged out of the dizzying Anxiety of choosing. This choice of faith can only be made by the individual and this is why Soren Kierkegaard spent his career trying to call people away from the "levelling" of Modernity which was turning everyone into "The Crowd" and away from the Church which kept its congregation like children. He was calling them to the "highest passion" of faith. He was calling them to forge their own selves and not give into the inauthenticity of Despair. In this introduction to Kierkegaard we take a brief look at the most compelling reasons why Kierkegaard is relevant today.
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- McDonald, William, "Søren Kierkegaard", _The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/kierkegaard/ - McDonald, William, _Søren Kierkegaard (1813—1855)_, _Internet encyclopedia of philosophy_. Available at: https://iep.utm.edu/kierkega (more in-depth than the Stanford one. Highly recommend) - Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Graff (https://amzn.to/3Sx1Tm5) - Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard (https://amzn.to/3DrOVBC) - Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard (https://amzn.to/3TxiNCv) - Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard (https://amzn.to/3TxiY0D)
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:42 The Life of Kierkegaard 5:38 The First Authorship 6:08 First Authorship - Aesthetical Stage 7:36 First Authorship - Ethical Stage 9:55 First Authorship - Religious Stage 13:50 Second Authorship 18:21 Kierkegaard's Final Stage
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Books Saved My Life
14 Jul 2024
00:12:40
In this episode I talk about the books that rescued me in my darkest times by giving me the breath of heroic inspiration I needed to get moving out of the dark pit I'd found myself in. I talk about what these books had in common and why we need them.
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A Psychological Mirror — Jordan Peterson and Olivia Wilde
04 Oct 2022
00:14:53
Immature heroic complexes and us and them dynamics — after reading The Cut's article "Did Olivia Wilde Just Make Jordan Peterson Cry?" something stirred in me that seems quite obvious in hindsight: the two sides of the culture wars are psychological mirrors of each other.
Both sides partake of the same ingroup and outgroup signalling. They show a lot of compassion for a certain group and a lot of hatred for the outgroup. There is also the same vein of a hero complex running through both. Each side thinks they are saving the cultures from the demonic Other.
In this episode we talk about the immature hero complex operating on both sides and how each is a mirror of the other and a co-dependant mirror insofar as they fulfil each other's needs to continue the drama. _____________ Sources: The Cut article: https://www.thecut.com/2022/09/jordan-peterson-cries-responding-to-olivia-wildes-critique.html The Piers Morgan Jordan Peterson video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1612L2FMHo
Martin Heidegger: His Life and Philosophy
21 Sep 2022
00:25:45
Martin Heidegger is the greatest philosopher of the 20th century for many — from Giles Deleuze to the alt-right and undoubtedly one of the most controversial characters in the history of philosophy. In this episode we are going to look at the life and philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his masterpiece Being and Time. We also explore his lesser-known later philosophy after going through what scholars call 'Die Kehre' or 'The Turn". At this point, we see Heidegger on technology and the dangers the technological worldview presents to us today. We also talk about his association with the National Socialist party in Germany and Heidegger's controversial embrace of them as rector at the University of Freiburg before turning his back on them as being part of the technological problem.
Wheeler, Michael, "Martin Heidegger", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Frede, D., 1993. The question of being: Heidegger’s project. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, 2.
Why Humanity is Special - de Chardin and the Birth of the Noosphere
04 Sep 2022
00:12:31
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's theory of evolution posits that with the emergence of the Noosphere (the thinking or mind sphere which transcended the Biosphere and in turn the Physiosphere) the Omega Point was now being converged upon. With the Noosphere Life has penetrated a new ceiling unlike any since the birth of life itself. Now evolution wasn't limited to chromosomes but we saw the emergence of a whole new form of evolution: acquired traits. In other words, culture is a new form of evolution but at the Noospheric level rather than the chromosomal level of the Biosphere.
Both the Noosphere and the Biosphere of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have for their substrate what Ken Wilber later called the Physiosphere. With the secret ingredient of complexity, the inert matter of the Physiosphere became vitalised as the living Biosphere. In turn as the complexity of the Biosphere reached a new level, we see the emergence of the Noosphere and with this new emergence, a convergence has begun upon what de Chardin called the Omega Point but which could be called in today's language the Singularity (or as some have called it - the Rapture of the Nerds). ____________________ Further Reading: - de Chardin, T. 1956. *Man's Place in Nature*, Fontana Press: London ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 Discord ▶ https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ________________ Media Used:
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⌛ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:28 A Tale of Two Spheres: the Physiosphere and the Biosphere 04:04 The Third Sphere: the Emergence of the Noosphere 05:12 The Threshold of Reflection 07:40 Knitting Together
A Conflict of Visions: Thomas Sowell's Constrained vs Unconstrained Vision
23 Aug 2022
00:21:39
In A Conflict of Visions Sowell distinguishes between the two visions that have shaped the landscape of the modern era (and beyond): the Constrained Vision and the Unconstrained vision. From Hobbes's "bloody war of each against all" to Rousseau's "man is born free but is everywhere in chains" we see these visions develop and grow in the modern era, shaping the world we find ourselves in.
A Conflict of Visions which Thomas Sowell published in 1987 and has always spoken of as his favourite book is a fantastic exploration of the exact type of historical trend exploration that I'm so fond of. While Sowell's verion of Unconstrained vision suffers somewhat from his Constrained vision bias it is not irreparably so and the whole book has become one of my favourites and one I know I'll be returning to for many years to come. In this episode we are going to review and give a summary of A Conflict of Visions. I hope you enjoy! ____________________
Further Reading:
- Sowell, T., 1987. _A conflict of visions: Ideological origins of political struggles_
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⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:21 What is a Vision? 4:25 Constrained vs. Unconstrained: Human Nature 4:47 Constrained Human Nature 6:45 Unconstrained Human Nature 10:20 Unconstrained: Progress and Change 11:42 Constrained Progress: Progress and Change 15:15: Summary of the Constrained and Unconstrained Visions 16:56 An Attempt at Synthesis: A Developmental Perspective
How to Become an Übermensch — Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses
08 Aug 2022
00:14:07
The Three Metamorphoses is Nietzsche's map of the development of Re-Valuers of Values — the Übermensch. At the beginning of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche's Zarathustra delivers his first discourse — The Three Metamorphoses.
In the first 100 days of the channel I made a video exploring this topic. Recently I sat down to transcribe the video and release it in article format on the website. Instead, I ended up overflowing with thoughts and insights. This is one of those incredibly rich corners of Nietzsche that I return to again and again. I wrote draft after draft and ended up with far too much for a short YouTube video (perhaps a lecture someday would be a more suitable format). I pared back the many pages into what you see here.
It is fascinating to cover old ground loaded with the learnings from more recent studies and with the Q3 quest that has been taking shape on the channel of late. The creation of this video was one of those weeks (even more than other weeks) where I felt immensely blessed with what this channel has become.
In brief Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses charts the metamorphosis from man into camel; camel into lion and finally lion into the child. The camel submits to a higher law; the lion fights the dragon "Thou Shalt" which creates the space for the child to create a new tablet of values — for Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the philosophy of Nietzsche are inexorably bound together. This was the book that Friedrich Nietzsche most believed in and adored (and where the idea of the Übermensch emerged). It transformed his inner world and this story of Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses is pivotal to that transformation. _________________ 📚 Further Reading:
- Nietzsche, F. and Kaufmann, W., 1954. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Portable Nietzsche. trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Viking.
- Jung, C.G., 1998. Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Abridged Edition (Vol. 99). Princeton University Press.
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Nietzsche: The Many Uses of the Gods
24 Jul 2022
00:06:55
In the episode on Foucault we touched briefly on the question of what might happen if we combined Jung's analysis of the gods with Foucault's analysis of power. There is a precedent for this question in the work of the philosopher loved by both thinkers: Friedrich Nietzsche.
In his book, On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche talks about how the gods can have very different effects on their believers. In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, God is the embodiment of the superego. He is the ideal that judges; we are creatures with Free Will and whether we thrive or fail is on ourselves. In the Greek tradition on the other hand we have the pantheon of bickering gods. If misfortune befalls us it isn't simply because of something we have done but perhaps becuase of some conflict among the gods that we have no power of. In this way the Greeks "used their gods precisely so as to ward off the “bad conscience,” so as to be able to rejoice in their freedom of soul—the very opposite of the use to which Christianity put its God." ____________________ Further Reading:
- Nietzsche, F., 1989. On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann. _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_, pp.437-599. - _The Labors of Hercules_. [online] Available at: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/labors.html ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!)
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The Philosopher's Philosopher | Heraclitus of Ephesus | Presocratic Philosophy
11 Jul 2022
00:09:20
The Presocratic Heraclitus of Ephesus is a philosopher's philosopher. His work was beloved by Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger. The philosopher from Ephesus is commonly known as the philosopher of fire (thanks to Aristotle) or, for those with a little more nuance, he is known as the philosopher of panta rei or flux — of constant never-ending change.
But there is another side of Heraclitus's philosophy that is less talked about and that is his philosophy of Logos. This element of the Presocratic philosopher's work was taken up by the Gospel writer John who opened his Gospel with the line "In the beginning was there was the Logos and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God". John wrote his work in Ephesus and so the comparison with Heraclitus can't be avoided.
For Heraclitus Logos is the unchanging eternal principle that is the true nature of reality. That leaves us with something of a paradox in a way that is very similar to Parmenides, who also wrote about the contrast between the world of Being and the world of Becoming.
As well as Parmenides we will also be looking at how Heraclitus's work can be situated as part of the tradition of the Perennial Philosophy and can be fruitfully connected with the Eastern philosophies of Buddha Gautama and of Lao-Tzu. ____________________ Further Reading:
- Curd, P. and McKirahan, R.D., 1996. A Presocratics Reader - Geldard, R.G., 2000. _Remembering Heraclitus_. Richard Geldard. ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!)
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Power | Michel Foucault's Groundbreaking Theory of Power
06 Jun 2022
00:15:35
For Michel Foucault Power is critical to understanding the world we live in. Foucault's theory of power revolutionised the way we look at power from being a top-down domination to being an omnipresent force of nature. This episode is an introduction to the Foucault theory of power. We'll be explaining Foucault's theory in simple terms using examples from everyday life to show how revolutionary this new understanding of Power truly is.
A critical distinction in approaching Foucault's work on Power is the distinction between the Empirical and the Theoretical levels of Power. The empirical level is the study of historical crystallisations of power (for example disciplinary power or biopower). The Theoretical level of power however is the study of power in itself — what is common to power across all historical instantiations.
What we end up with is a Foucault theory of power that stands apart from all conceptions of power that went before. Instead of a top-down hierarchical domination hierarchy, Foucault's Power is an immanent, omnipresent force of nature like gravity or magnetism. For Foucault Power is everywhere from the interactions of lovers to those between states or colleagues. The fundamental atom of this force of nature is Foucault's Force Relations. ____________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy ________________ 🎶 Music Used: 1. Anguish— Kevin MacLeod 2. Lost Frontier— Kevin MacLeod 3. Despair & Triumph — Kevin MacLeod 4. There's Probably No Time — Chris Zabriskie 5. End of the Era — Kevin MacLeod 6. Lightless Dawn — Kevin MacLeod 7. Allegro — Emmit Fenn 8. Juniper — Kevin MacLeod
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Feminism vs. Womanism — A Revaluation of All Values
01 May 2022
00:16:00
In this episode we explore a potential Nietzschean revaluation of all values in the form of a distinction. If we separate the ideas of femininity and masculinity from females and males, we are left with two possible revaluations. There is the fight over the respective value of men and women in society; this is the classical struggle of historical Feminism. In this episode we are going to call this the Womanist struggle. There is another, deeper, struggle that has yet to be wrestled with on a substantial level: the distinction between the values of masculinity and of femininity. With that distinction in mind we can form a distinction between Masculinism and Feminism. Masculinism is the triumph of Masculine values in society. Feminism is the triumph of Feminine values in society. Seen through this lens, Womanism (the historical movement we usually call Feminism) is in fact a Masculinist movement. ____________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy ________________
📖 Further reading and study: * Introduction to ecofeminism: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/ecofeminism-history-and-principles * Charles Eisenstein (interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfNgW-On6hw * Brene Brown’s legendary TED talks: — The Power of Vulnerability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o — Listening to shame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0 * Blair Fix (Planet Critical interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51MDOQ9ygo * Jason Hickel (Planet Critical interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjWWCRBJBk * Marion Woodman’s books: — The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter : https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/27245.The_Owl_Was_a_Baker_s_Daughter — Addiction to Perfection: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703515.Addiction_to_Perfection * Gender distribution chart: http://savvystatistics.com/open-sex-role-inventory/
* Introduction to the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BRSI): https://www.britannica.com/science/Bem-Sex-Role-Inventory * BSRI test: https://www.idrlabs.com/gender/test.php * Critiques of Bem Sex Role Inventory: — https://www.bustle.com/articles/131801-i-took-the-bem-sex-role-inventory-test-from-1974-this-is-what-happened — https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/he-speaks-she-speaks/202202/what-holds-women-back-realizing-their-ability-and-ambition
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The Four Quadrants: A Map of All Knowledge and Human Experience
06 Mar 2022
00:13:48
The Four Quadrants model developed by Ken Wilber is an exceptional map of knowledge and of the human experience. It gives us a language for understanding differing fields of knowledge and why they are approaching the problems that they are and in the way that they are. The Four Quadrants model was developed by Ken Wilber in his book Sex, Ecology, Spirituality and for him it is a map of the Kosmos (that is to say, of the entirety of reality rather than the merely materialist external cosmos). Wilber uses the model to explain the interconnectedness of all things, to show the hierarchy of experience rising up to the higher spiritual experiences and also as a tool for developing the various elements of our life. In this episode however we focus in on where the model is most powerful in the context of this channel: the human element and the potential of this Four Quadrants model for helping us understand the intellectual landscape of the 21st century and for understanding the underlying ontological/epistemological groundings for the cultural conflicts we see today. ____________________ Further Reading: • A Theory of Everything – Ken Wilber • Sex, Ecology, Spirituality – Ken Wilber ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy ________________ Media Used: 1. There’s Probably No Time — Chris Zabriskie 2. Despair and Triumph — Kevin MacLeod 3. Mesmerize — Kevin MacLeod 4. Anguish — Kevin MacLeod 5. Juniper — Kevin MacLeod 6. End of an Era — Kevin MacLeod
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How to Think Like Nietzsche
30 Jun 2024
00:15:15
The aphoristic style of Friedrich Nietzsche is a wellspring of inspiration. In this episode, we explore the connection between this style and Nietzsche's hiking (10 hours of hiking a day, if he is to be believed). It is Nietzsche's walking that gave birth to the aphorisms in a passive form of thinking that stands in stark contrast to the thorough linear thinking of philosophers like Kant and Hegel.
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- Nietzsche FW (2000) _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.
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Postmodern Neo-Marxism — Jordan Peterson’s Shadow
07 Feb 2022
00:25:54
Jordan Peterson’s idea of Postmodern Neo-Marxism is a conspiracy theory. It is also the Shadow in the Jungian sense of Jordan Peterson. Nothing whips Peterson into a more passionate frenzy than the Postmodern Neo-Marxist idea. And to hear the way he talks about the “main villains” of the Postmodern Neo-Marxist movement — Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida — this diagnosis becomes all the more obvious. Peterson goes beyond the bounds of reason and strays into the possession of his Shadow. Little wonder then that Peterson’s discourse has captivated all sides of the political spectrum. It constellates the Shadows both of his supporters and of his detractors. In this episode we explore Peterson on Postmodern Neomarxism — his argument, where it's wrong and what it tells us about Peterson. ______________ Sources:
Jordan Peterson Clips 1. Jordan Peterson Manning Centre speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2nqmQIfxc 2. Joe Rogan Episode 958 clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCfIuFmULkg 3. Postmodernism in a Nutshell – Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el6TVEMnS3E 4. Postmodernism Diagnosis and Cure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4c-jOdPTN8 5. Jordan Peterson: You’re Oppressed! The Dangers of Postmodernism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-8slOBngqk 6. Interview with John Vervaeke (timestamped to relevant point): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLg2Q0daphE&t=2817s&ab_channel=JordanBPeterson 7. Postmodernism in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el6TVEMnS3E 8. Why Postmodernism is so Dangerous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URktRTE1S0A 9. Foucault the Reprehensible clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFSDd_5tiE
Other sources: 1. Jonas Ceika: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtvTGaPzF4 2. Jordan Peterson “why the rage bruh” clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EFyADe8B4E&t=5m47s 3. Jacobin article on Foucault’s experimentation with neoliberalism https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/michel-foucault-neoliberalism-friedrich-hayek-milton-friedman-gary-becker-minoritarian-governments 4. Psychology and Religion by Carl Jung https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123636.Psychology_and_Religion 5. Jung 1939 Lecture (source of the bete noire quote) https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2021/11/30/27-january-1939-psychology-and-yoga-meditation-lecture-10/#.YgFF7Or7S3A 6. Foucault quote about Marxism from Didier Eribon’s biography of him https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1385058.Michel_Foucault 7. Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2218102.Maps_of_Meaning 8. Robert Johnson’s (Jungian psychologist) book on the shadow: Owning Your Own Shadow https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9544.Owning_Your_Own_Shadow 9. French elections and the Communist Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Communist_Party#Popular_support_and_electoral_record 10. Conspiracy theory definition: Goertzel T. (1994). Belief in conspiracy theories. Political Psychology, 15, 731–742.
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Buddhism Isn't a Philosophy (It's a Religion)
30 Jan 2022
00:15:07
Is Buddhism a religion or philosophy? I have debated many times over the years with people who are fond of Buddhism but tend to dislike religion. Of course anybody who has studied Buddhism in any depth knows that Buddhism is a religion first and foremost. Is Buddhism a philosophy? Yes but in the way that Christianity is a philosophy that is to say that there is a philosophy within it but that is not what defines it.
In this episode we examine different schools of Buddhism and their supernatural beliefs in order to answer the question is Buddhism a religion or philosophy. The resounding answer is that yes Buddhism is a religion and no Buddhism is not atheist.
We will also be challenging the claims that tend to get piled in with this school of thought: firstly that Buddhism isn't a violent religion and second the question is buddhism atheist. ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 03:59 Why People Think Buddhism Isn’t a Religion 06:23 Theravadin Buddhism 08:43 Mahayana Buddhism 11:00 Buddhism and Violence 12:28 Final Thoughts
What is Metamodernism?
23 Jan 2022
00:12:31
Metamodernism might be the most important idea you come this year. According to Hanzi Freinacht, the pioneer of political metamodernism, metamodernism is a new cultural phase that transcends and includes (to use Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy language) the previous phase of Postmodernism (which is turn transcended and included the previous phase of Modernity). Hanzi Freinacht is one of a number of pioneering Metamodernist thinkers as well as the Dutch art scholars Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen who first sparked the Metamodern phenomenon with their 2010 paper Notes on Metamodernism. In this episode we are going to look at the characteristics of this new Metamodern cultural trend. its relationship to the previous trends of Modernity and Postmodernity and why, in this world in crisis, we need Metamodernism. ____________________
Further Reading: • The Listening Society by Hanzi Freinacht • Metamodern Manifesto by Luke Turner http://www.metamodernism.org/ • Notes on Metamodernism by Robin van der Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/jac.v2i0.5677 ________________
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Humanity is NOT a Cancer; We're Bacterial
16 Jan 2022
00:18:36
Is humanity a cancer? It’s a perspective that’s growing increasingly popular. It tells us a lot about humanity’s self-perception in the 21st century that this view is gaining traction. But it’s completely false. In this episode we are going to explore why it is false. The analogy to cancer is a poor one as we’ll see. A much more fruitful comparison can be made with bacteria but even this comparison is a mere finger pointing to a tendency that is common to life on Earth in general. It seems that the propensity to over-consume and overbreed is not a uniquely human trait. The reality is that humanity’s destructiveness derives from its connection to the rest of life. However what is unique about humanity is our potential to do something about it. In facing into the climate crisis, we see two camps emerging which are each allied with uniquely human traits: wisdom and culture/intelligence. ____________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy ________________ Media Used: 1. Lightless Dawn — Kevin MacLeod 2. Lost Frontier — Kevin MacLeod 3. Despair and Triumph — Kevin MacLeod 4. Drums of the Deep — Kevin MacLeod 5. Anguish — Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:53 The Problem 04:05 The Bacterial Lifecycle 08:34 The Wolves of Yellowstone 12:39 The Rabbits of Australia 15:02 Two Paths to Salvation ________________ #philosophy #thelivingphilosophy #climatechange