Reason, imagination and reality. Or the temporal, abstract and the physical. Figured that out from just self education on Plato. Sucks. Wish something like Ralston was around when I was younger. Finally at least someone gets it.
The metaphysical and the secular should not be at odds. A religious belief system that does not allow for or value logic and reason will never completely satisfy. A purely secular conception of existence that does not give place for metaphysics will also never satisfy.
Foucault's form of historicism, based on a radical social determinism and relativistic epistemology, ends in nihilism. In some ways it replicates the empty positivism of an of twentieth century Anglo American school on the epistemological front. Although Plato's essentialism may be seen as an alternative, the west has given Plato over two thousand years of study. The west is not about to recover from its current malaise by such a return in the Post Truth society that Foucault has planted us.
That was an awesome podcast. Where has this been my whole life. Unbelievable.
You should really do video with audio for your podcast. It would be much more popular if you did.
Yes. It is criminal that such high quality content can get only a few hundred views.
Reason, imagination and reality. Or the temporal, abstract and the physical. Figured that out from just self education on Plato. Sucks. Wish something like Ralston was around when I was younger. Finally at least someone gets it.
Satres’ concept of “absurdity” seems more at the heart of modern times. Good discussion though with Plato’s ideas.
imagination is characteristically human but not characteristically Hume-an
The metaphysical and the secular should not be at odds. A religious belief system that does not allow for or value logic and reason will never completely satisfy. A purely secular conception of existence that does not give place for metaphysics will also never satisfy.
Foucault's form of historicism, based on a radical social determinism and relativistic epistemology, ends in nihilism. In some ways it replicates the empty positivism of an of twentieth century Anglo American school on the epistemological front. Although Plato's essentialism may be seen as an alternative, the west has given Plato over two thousand years of study. The west is not about to recover from its current malaise by such a return in the Post Truth society that Foucault has planted us.