Idols of the Mind vs True Reality, Chap 1: Logic of Life || Stockton University Science of Life Club

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The first meeting of Stockton University's Science of Life Club for the Spring '25 semester, discussing chapter 1 of Idols of the Mind vs. True Reality, Logic of Life. This chapter emphasizes the teleological view of nature and life through the philosophies of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and G.W.F. Hegel. Summary of main topics:
🔹(40:38) Aristotelian perspective of ontology and causality and their relevance to contemporary studies in embryonic development
🔹Emphasis on the (inner and outer) teleological view of nature
🔹(49:08) Hegelian perspective on the ontological distinctions between mechanical, chemical, and biological objects
🔹(58:34) Kantian perspective of an organism
🔹(59:10) Hegel’s Conceptual comprehension of life as a dialectic process
🔹Threefold aspects of the concept of life - Universal (reproduction), Particular (metabolism), Singular (digestion/assimilation)
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The purpose of this student organization is to consider, promote, and contribute to the synthesis of the sciences and humanities, focusing on the role that life plays within these diverse fields of study. This includes consideration of the emerging multidisciplinary field of consciousness studies. Various educational activities will be organized in line with this purpose, facilitating respectful and thoughtful interdisciplinary dialogue. The Science of Life Club has been organized as a part of the Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute’s Circles of Life community initiative. The BVI’s focus centers on the rational implications of the empirically observable law of biogenesis, and the evolution of consciousness, or the stepwise development from states of consciousness with a limited scope of cognitive capacities like cells, plants, and insects, to higher organisms up to the human form of life. Here, the standard for high/low level of consciousness refers to a spectrum of sophistication for capacities like decision-making, cooperation, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and inquiring about identity, origin, and purpose, as expressed through humanistic disciplines like art, science, philosophy, and religion.
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