McGilchrist is the synthesis between the "mystical" and the scientific that we have all been awaiting. His voice is a response to the conversation that has strayed to extremes throughout the centuries, resolving into a sober yet ecstatic pronunciation of truth. I think that McGilchrist is the path out of the traps set by contemporary thinking, especially for the artists of the world.
Living on the coast of Georgia, a few miles south of beloved Savannah, I begin reading THE MATTER WITH THINGS upon the New Year with THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY well and long under my belt. This man means a great deal to me.
What a lovely conversation! Superb. I am reading Master/Emissary now and have read about a 2/5's of The Matter with Things. These books will change your life.
@@lesliecunliffe4450 it's just like the wisdom of setting a boundary against a hurtful/dysfunctional action, just on a greater scale, and it moves us to more harmony overall.
🐟 03. WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, & TRUTH: PHILOSOPHY DEFINED: Philosophy, is the predilection for WISDOM, normally encapsulated within a formal academic discipline. Wisdom, is the soundness of an action or a decision, with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, insight, and good judgement. Wisdom may also be described as the body of knowledge and the principles that develops within a specified society or period. For example, “The wisdom of the Tibetan lamas.” Etymologically, the word originates from the Greek, “philosophia” (meaning, “love of wisdom”), and is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values/ethics, mind, and language. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras. Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation. Philosophers generally divide their field into the two kingdoms, the Eastern branch, which covers the entire Asian continent, and the Western branch of philosophy, which includes mainly European, though in recent centuries, embraces American and Australian-born philosophers also. Furthermore, each of these two kingdoms can be loosely divided into lesser branches of philosophy, such as the Continental-analytical division of Western philosophy, and the various schools of epistemology of India, China, and Middle-East Asia, some of which are outlined below. GENUINE WISDOM: Unfortunately, in most cases in which the term, “philosophy”, is used, particularly outside of ancient Indian philosophical traditions, it tacitly or implicitly refers to ideas and/or ideologies that are quite far-removed from genuine wisdom. For instance, the typical academic philosopher, especially in the Western tradition, is not a lover of actual wisdom, but a believer in, or at least a practitioner of, adharma (lawlessness), which is the ANTITHESIS of genuine wisdom. Many Western academic (so-called) “philosophers” are notorious for using laborious sophistry, abstruse semantics, gobbledygook, and/or pseudo-intellectual word-play, in an attempt to justify their blatantly-immoral ideologies and practices, and in many cases, fooling the ignorant layman into accepting the most horrendous crimes, as not only normal and natural, but holy and righteous! In “The Republic”, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristocles (commonly known as Plato) quotes his mentor, Socrates, as asserting that the best philosophers are, in actual fact, naught but useless, utter rogues, in stark contrast to “true” philosophers, who are lovers of wisdom and truth. An ideal philosopher, on the other hand, is one who is sufficiently intelligent to understand that morality is, of necessity, based on the law of non-violence (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and sufficiently wise to live his or her life in such a harmless manner. See Chapter 12 regarding morality.
I am reading the Master and his Emissary and it is so unusual to find a book where there are so many insights. I find I need to let each chapter soak in before moving on. We have more than one string to our bow and need to make use of all our abilities synergistically.
Is there any information about Ralston College's staff, their background and qualifications? Unfortunately the College website was not particularly helpful.
We don't have to buy into McGilchrist's mind-in-brain misrepresentation, given that both Wittgenstein and Heidegger had already diagnosed the shortfall in Western culture's representation of the plurality of knowing, experience and meaning around ninety years ago. In Wittgenstein's work, this shows up as four references to meaning: meaning as use (it is practices that give words their sense); meaning as custom (rituals including our everyday patterns of behaviour as well as the deeper practices); meaning as rule-following (scientific and propositional forms of knowing, the deliberate patterns of learning that underpin expert performance including creative practices); and meaning as physiognomy (reading the non-verbal for meaning as analogous to a face). The last reference makes sense of why the visual and auditory world: art, music, architecture, gardens, etc., matter. After Wittgenstein, we can arrive at such an understanding by describing what we already know and do, which Wittgenstein achieved without reference to brain hemispheres. We think and operate with embodied and embedded minds. To assume otherwise is to operate by the mereological fallacy, which confuses parts with wholes (see Bennett, M & Hacker, P. (2003; 2022 2nd ed.) Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, Oxford, Wiley Blackwell). Hacker is an important Wittgensteininan philosopher of mind. Bennett is a leading neuroscientist. Wittgenstein wrote this about the misconception that entrances McGilchrist: "605. One of the most dangerous of ideas for a philosopher is, oddly enough, that we think with our heads. 606. The idea of thinking as a process in the head, in a completely enclosed space, gives him something occult." ( From Wittgenstein's notes written between 1929 and 1948 - now published as Zettel.)
BOTH Ludwig and Martin were full-time criminals. 🐟 03. WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, & TRUTH: PHILOSOPHY DEFINED: Philosophy, is the predilection for WISDOM, normally encapsulated within a formal academic discipline. Wisdom, is the soundness of an action or a decision, with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, insight, and good judgement. Wisdom may also be described as the body of knowledge and the principles that develops within a specified society or period. For example, “The wisdom of the Tibetan lamas.” Etymologically, the word originates from the Greek, “philosophia” (meaning, “love of wisdom”), and is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values/ethics, mind, and language. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras. Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation. Philosophers generally divide their field into the two kingdoms, the Eastern branch, which covers the entire Asian continent, and the Western branch of philosophy, which includes mainly European, though in recent centuries, embraces American and Australian-born philosophers also. Furthermore, each of these two kingdoms can be loosely divided into lesser branches of philosophy, such as the Continental-analytical division of Western philosophy, and the various schools of epistemology of India, China, and Middle-East Asia, some of which are outlined below. GENUINE WISDOM: Unfortunately, in most cases in which the term, “philosophy”, is used, particularly outside of ancient Indian philosophical traditions, it tacitly or implicitly refers to ideas and/or ideologies that are quite far-removed from genuine wisdom. For instance, the typical academic philosopher, especially in the Western tradition, is not a lover of actual wisdom, but a believer in, or at least a practitioner of, adharma (lawlessness), which is the ANTITHESIS of genuine wisdom. Many Western academic (so-called) “philosophers” are notorious for using laborious sophistry, abstruse semantics, gobbledygook, and/or pseudo-intellectual word-play, in an attempt to justify their blatantly-immoral ideologies and practices, and in many cases, fooling the ignorant layman into accepting the most horrendous crimes, as not only normal and natural, but holy and righteous! In “The Republic”, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristocles (commonly known as Plato) quotes his mentor, Socrates, as asserting that the best philosophers are, in actual fact, naught but useless, utter rogues, in stark contrast to “true” philosophers, who are lovers of wisdom and truth. An ideal philosopher, on the other hand, is one who is sufficiently intelligent to understand that morality is, of necessity, based on the law of non-violence (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and sufficiently wise to live his or her life in such a harmless manner. See Chapter 12 regarding morality. THE REPOSITORY OF WISDOM: One of the greatest misunderstandings of modern times, is the belief that philosophers (and psychologists, especially) are effectively, the substitutes for the priesthood of old. It is perhaps understandable that this misconception has arisen in the popular mind, because the typical priest/monk/rabbi/mullah seems to be an unschooled buffoon, compared with those highly-educated gentlemen who have attained collegiate doctorates in philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, et cetera. However, as mentioned in more than a few places in this book, it is imperative to understand that only a miniscule percentage of all those who claim to be spiritual teachers are ACTUAL “brāhmaṇa” (as defined in Chapter 20). Therefore, the wisest philosophers of the present age are still those exceptionally rare members of the Holy Priesthood! Anyone who doubts this averment, need do nothing more than read the remaining chapters of this Sacred Scripture, in order to learn this blatantly-obvious fact. POPULAR PHILOSOPHERS: At the very moment these words of mine are being typed on my laptop computer, there are probably hundreds of essay papers, as well as books and articles, being composed by professional philosophers and Theologians, both within and without academia. None of these papers, and almost none of the papers written in the past, will have any noticeable impact on human society, at least not in the realm of morals and ethics, which is obviously the most vital component of civilization. And, as mentioned in a previous paragraph, since such “lovers-of-wisdom” are almost exclusively adharmic (irreligious and corrupt) it is indeed FORTUITOUS that this is the case! The only (so-called) philosophers who seem to have any perceptible influence in the public arena, are “pop” or “armchair” philosophers, such as Mrs. Alisa “Alice” O’Connor (known more popularly by her pen name, Ayn Rand), and the British author, Mr. Clive Staples “C.S.” Lewis, almost definitely due to the fact that they have published well-liked books and/or they have managed to promulgate their ideas via the mass media, especially on the World Wide Web. Cont...
All knowledge comes from fragmenting the ever-changing whole into defined bits and pieces. In-other-words, you cannot possibly express the whole unfolding reality via knowledge. The whole can only be experienced not delineated.
@@PerryWidhalm One of the principle features of the world of learning Ralston College aims to promote is the idea of the canon, of authority, of learning from great authorship. Given that in 1999 Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations was voted by US professional philosophers to be the most important philosophical text published in the 20th. century., I have every right, even the duty, to draw on Wittgenstein's and Wittgensteinian philosophers' thinking in my comment. Only the remarks from Zettel are 'cut and pasted'. Should I have typed them from the original instead? What's your problem?
Time and Perpetual Change are not the same thing, not interchangeable terms. Time is a human construct that creates units by imagining boundaries where that are none. This illusion is responsible for a past, present and future. In truth, it is always the ever-changing present (which seems like a contradiction when reasoning through the contrivance of time). At any rate, today remains the First Day and Only Day there will ever be.
The reason I am unhappy is because this all sound so forced. Did they take him hostage. Since when is Ian an expert on education. What is happening? What is going on? Was Ian paid to sit here and spew this nonsense?
His name is Iain, and while it's somewhat of a boost for the college, from what I know of IM, it's entirely consistent with his deepest considerations on the matter. I also don't see how one who has studied the human brain and human knowledge for as long as he has couldn't also contribute thoughts about education, its ends and means.
McGilchrist is the synthesis between the "mystical" and the scientific that we have all been awaiting. His voice is a response to the conversation that has strayed to extremes throughout the centuries, resolving into a sober yet ecstatic pronunciation of truth. I think that McGilchrist is the path out of the traps set by contemporary thinking, especially for the artists of the world.
Vervaeke as well
@@johny7116yes
Living on the coast of Georgia, a few miles south of beloved Savannah, I begin reading THE MATTER WITH THINGS upon the New Year with THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY well and long under my belt. This man means a great deal to me.
One of the finest thinkers of our time. Thank you ❤
Dr. Iian McGilchrist is definitely one of our great minds today.
With deep respect & appreciation for this discourse.
🙏❤️🌏🌍🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵🎶✨️💫✨️💫
What a lovely conversation! Superb. I am reading Master/Emissary now and have read about a 2/5's of The Matter with Things. These books will change your life.
One way to see wisdom is "That which moves us to harmony."
Love this 🎶
But what about the wisdom of going to war with Hitler?
@@lesliecunliffe4450 it's just like the wisdom of setting a boundary against a hurtful/dysfunctional action, just on a greater scale, and it moves us to more harmony overall.
Wisdom is about how to be in the world.
Much of wisdom is discovered.
The conservation of wise principles is a privilege.
🐟 03. WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, & TRUTH:
PHILOSOPHY DEFINED:
Philosophy, is the predilection for WISDOM, normally encapsulated within a formal academic discipline. Wisdom, is the soundness of an action or a decision, with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, insight, and good judgement. Wisdom may also be described as the body of knowledge and the principles that develops within a specified society or period. For example, “The wisdom of the Tibetan lamas.”
Etymologically, the word originates from the Greek, “philosophia” (meaning, “love of wisdom”), and is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values/ethics, mind, and language. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras. Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation.
Philosophers generally divide their field into the two kingdoms, the Eastern branch, which covers the entire Asian continent, and the Western branch of philosophy, which includes mainly European, though in recent centuries, embraces American and Australian-born philosophers also. Furthermore, each of these two kingdoms can be loosely divided into lesser branches of philosophy, such as the Continental-analytical division of Western philosophy, and the various schools of epistemology of India, China, and Middle-East Asia, some of which are outlined below.
GENUINE WISDOM:
Unfortunately, in most cases in which the term, “philosophy”, is used, particularly outside of ancient Indian philosophical traditions, it tacitly or implicitly refers to ideas and/or ideologies that are quite far-removed from genuine wisdom. For instance, the typical academic philosopher, especially in the Western tradition, is not a lover of actual wisdom, but a believer in, or at least a practitioner of, adharma (lawlessness), which is the ANTITHESIS of genuine wisdom. Many Western academic (so-called) “philosophers” are notorious for using laborious sophistry, abstruse semantics, gobbledygook, and/or pseudo-intellectual word-play, in an attempt to justify their blatantly-immoral ideologies and practices, and in many cases, fooling the ignorant layman into accepting the most horrendous crimes, as not only normal and natural, but holy and righteous!
In “The Republic”, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristocles (commonly known as Plato) quotes his mentor, Socrates, as asserting that the best philosophers are, in actual fact, naught but useless, utter rogues, in stark contrast to “true” philosophers, who are lovers of wisdom and truth.
An ideal philosopher, on the other hand, is one who is sufficiently intelligent to understand that morality is, of necessity, based on the law of non-violence (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and sufficiently wise to live his or her life in such a harmless manner. See Chapter 12 regarding morality.
@@TheWorldTeacher Please just stop .....
Excellent!!
I am reading the Master and his Emissary and it is so unusual to find a book where there are so many insights. I find I need to let each chapter soak in before moving on. We have more than one string to our bow and need to make use of all our abilities synergistically.
Gotta love this human.
A sage. The Sage!
Sage tea is much better and far healthier
Wisdom = the foregoing of college.
No ....
@@PerryWidhalm Well, at least you're parsimonious.
🤝👍wielkie👍PiĘĆ👍DZiĘKUjĘ👍 Bless4allYA 👍🤝
Is there any information about Ralston College's staff, their background and qualifications? Unfortunately the College website was not particularly helpful.
One can surely only fall off such a high pedestal, it certainly wasn’t a selfie video of reality, I could feel the sweat.
Where is picture 2 and 3
We don't have to buy into McGilchrist's mind-in-brain misrepresentation, given that both Wittgenstein and Heidegger had already diagnosed the shortfall in Western culture's representation of the plurality of knowing, experience and meaning around ninety years ago. In Wittgenstein's work, this shows up as four references to meaning: meaning as use (it is practices that give words their sense); meaning as custom (rituals including our everyday patterns of behaviour as well as the deeper practices); meaning as rule-following (scientific and propositional forms of knowing, the deliberate patterns of learning that underpin expert performance including creative practices); and meaning as physiognomy (reading the non-verbal for meaning as analogous to a face). The last reference makes sense of why the visual and auditory world: art, music, architecture, gardens, etc., matter. After Wittgenstein, we can arrive at such an understanding by describing what we already know and do, which Wittgenstein achieved without reference to brain hemispheres. We think and operate with embodied and embedded minds. To assume otherwise is to operate by the mereological fallacy, which confuses parts with wholes (see Bennett, M & Hacker, P. (2003; 2022 2nd ed.) Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, Oxford, Wiley Blackwell). Hacker is an important Wittgensteininan philosopher of mind. Bennett is a leading neuroscientist.
Wittgenstein wrote this about the misconception that entrances McGilchrist:
"605. One of the most dangerous of ideas for a philosopher is, oddly enough, that we think with our heads.
606. The idea of thinking as a process in the head, in a completely enclosed space, gives him something occult." ( From Wittgenstein's notes written between 1929 and 1948 - now published as Zettel.)
BOTH Ludwig and Martin were full-time criminals.
🐟 03. WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, & TRUTH:
PHILOSOPHY DEFINED:
Philosophy, is the predilection for WISDOM, normally encapsulated within a formal academic discipline. Wisdom, is the soundness of an action or a decision, with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, insight, and good judgement. Wisdom may also be described as the body of knowledge and the principles that develops within a specified society or period. For example, “The wisdom of the Tibetan lamas.”
Etymologically, the word originates from the Greek, “philosophia” (meaning, “love of wisdom”), and is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values/ethics, mind, and language. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras. Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation.
Philosophers generally divide their field into the two kingdoms, the Eastern branch, which covers the entire Asian continent, and the Western branch of philosophy, which includes mainly European, though in recent centuries, embraces American and Australian-born philosophers also. Furthermore, each of these two kingdoms can be loosely divided into lesser branches of philosophy, such as the Continental-analytical division of Western philosophy, and the various schools of epistemology of India, China, and Middle-East Asia, some of which are outlined below.
GENUINE WISDOM:
Unfortunately, in most cases in which the term, “philosophy”, is used, particularly outside of ancient Indian philosophical traditions, it tacitly or implicitly refers to ideas and/or ideologies that are quite far-removed from genuine wisdom. For instance, the typical academic philosopher, especially in the Western tradition, is not a lover of actual wisdom, but a believer in, or at least a practitioner of, adharma (lawlessness), which is the ANTITHESIS of genuine wisdom. Many Western academic (so-called) “philosophers” are notorious for using laborious sophistry, abstruse semantics, gobbledygook, and/or pseudo-intellectual word-play, in an attempt to justify their blatantly-immoral ideologies and practices, and in many cases, fooling the ignorant layman into accepting the most horrendous crimes, as not only normal and natural, but holy and righteous!
In “The Republic”, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristocles (commonly known as Plato) quotes his mentor, Socrates, as asserting that the best philosophers are, in actual fact, naught but useless, utter rogues, in stark contrast to “true” philosophers, who are lovers of wisdom and truth.
An ideal philosopher, on the other hand, is one who is sufficiently intelligent to understand that morality is, of necessity, based on the law of non-violence (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and sufficiently wise to live his or her life in such a harmless manner. See Chapter 12 regarding morality.
THE REPOSITORY OF WISDOM:
One of the greatest misunderstandings of modern times, is the belief that philosophers (and psychologists, especially) are effectively, the substitutes for the priesthood of old. It is perhaps understandable that this misconception has arisen in the popular mind, because the typical priest/monk/rabbi/mullah seems to be an unschooled buffoon, compared with those highly-educated gentlemen who have attained collegiate doctorates in philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, et cetera. However, as mentioned in more than a few places in this book, it is imperative to understand that only a miniscule percentage of all those who claim to be spiritual teachers are ACTUAL “brāhmaṇa” (as defined in Chapter 20). Therefore, the wisest philosophers of the present age are still those exceptionally rare members of the Holy Priesthood! Anyone who doubts this averment, need do nothing more than read the remaining chapters of this Sacred Scripture, in order to learn this blatantly-obvious fact.
POPULAR PHILOSOPHERS:
At the very moment these words of mine are being typed on my laptop computer, there are probably hundreds of essay papers, as well as books and articles, being composed by professional philosophers and Theologians, both within and without academia. None of these papers, and almost none of the papers written in the past, will have any noticeable impact on human society, at least not in the realm of morals and ethics, which is obviously the most vital component of civilization. And, as mentioned in a previous paragraph, since such “lovers-of-wisdom” are almost exclusively adharmic (irreligious and corrupt) it is indeed FORTUITOUS that this is the case! The only (so-called) philosophers who seem to have any perceptible influence in the public arena, are “pop” or “armchair” philosophers, such as Mrs. Alisa “Alice” O’Connor (known more popularly by her pen name, Ayn Rand), and the British author, Mr. Clive Staples “C.S.” Lewis, almost definitely due to the fact that they have published well-liked books and/or they have managed to promulgate their ideas via the mass media, especially on the World Wide Web.
Cont...
@@TheWorldTeacher Cut and pasting is poor form. Perhaps put your understanding into your own words and terms.
All knowledge comes from fragmenting the ever-changing whole into defined bits and pieces. In-other-words, you cannot possibly express the whole unfolding reality via knowledge. The whole can only be experienced not delineated.
I don't see how somewhat Baconian metaphors of human meaning can deliver, in the end, much meaning.
@@PerryWidhalm One of the principle features of the world of learning Ralston College aims to promote is the idea of the canon, of authority, of learning from great authorship. Given that in 1999 Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations was voted by US professional philosophers to be the most important philosophical text published in the 20th. century., I have every right, even the duty, to draw on Wittgenstein's and Wittgensteinian philosophers' thinking in my comment. Only the remarks from Zettel are 'cut and pasted'. Should I have typed them from the original instead? What's your problem?
Isn't it all the same question in multiple various formats, over and over again ?
Yes. If they were honest about that they would not be able to earn so much money.
Time and Perpetual Change are not the same thing, not interchangeable terms. Time is a human construct that creates units by imagining boundaries where that are none. This illusion is responsible for a past, present and future. In truth, it is always the ever-changing present (which seems like a contradiction when reasoning through the contrivance of time). At any rate, today remains the First Day and Only Day there will ever be.
Can one understand context without context?
What?
The context of any particular item of investigation also has its own context.
Tolkien aesthetic
The reason I am unhappy is because this all sound so forced. Did they take him hostage. Since when is Ian an expert on education. What is happening? What is going on? Was Ian paid to sit here and spew this nonsense?
LOL Please define "nonsense" ....
His name is Iain, and while it's somewhat of a boost for the college, from what I know of IM, it's entirely consistent with his deepest considerations on the matter. I also don't see how one who has studied the human brain and human knowledge for as long as he has couldn't also contribute thoughts about education, its ends and means.
What makes anyone an expert in education?