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The Living Philosophy

The Living Philosophy

The Living Philosophy is all about the exploration of philosophy"s big ideas and big characters from the Ancients to the Postmoderns with a side of Psychology and seasoned with a dash of Integral.

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00:18:37

The Edge of the Inside — How to Change the...

The Living Philosophy ·

2024/05/05

Why it Matters is back (kind of). This video revisits the Prophet archetype with a bit more passion and a little less bookishness. It is great to have the previous video as a foundation but as with the old Why it Matters videos the point of this video is to get into why I care so much about this topic and why I think you should as well. We're going to be looking at the Prophet through the lens of Richard Rohr's description of the Prophet's position as being at "the edge of the

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00:10:08

Subconscious vs. Unconscious

The Living Philosophy ·

2024/04/21

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

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00:13:54

Reality vs Archetype — The Two Types of Romcom

The Living Philosophy ·

2024/04/07

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

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00:14:47

An (Ancient) New Theory of Happiness

The Living Philosophy ·

2024/03/10

You can get "Become Who You Are" here: http://designingthemind.org/becomingIt'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

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00:12:37

The Lost Art of Leisure

The Living Philosophy ·

2024/03/03

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

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00:14:22

The Prophet — the Archetype of Societal Renaissance

The Living Philosophy ·

2024/01/28

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.____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - Szakolczai Á (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies

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00:15:04

Justice vs. Vengeance — Is There a Difference?

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/12/31

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. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - Prisoner abuse data:

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00:18:33

Is Equality the Enemy?

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/12/17

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

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00:16:14

Liminality and the Values of the Left

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/11/19

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. ____________________📚 Further Reading:- Szakolczai Á (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies in social and political

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00:09:28

The Homelessness Crisis — Where Individualism Breaks...

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/10/22

"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

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00:17:23

Liminality X Nihlism — The Real Cause of the Meaning...

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/10/08

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

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00:14:56

The Last Man — Nietzsche

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/09/24

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

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00:25:13

Liminality — Our World in One Word

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/09/10

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

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00:22:51

Addicted to Apocalypse: Our Psychological Need for...

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/08/27

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. ________________⭐ Support the channel

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00:24:20

Why Jung Hated Philosophers

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/08/13

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

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00:31:11

Camino de Santiago: Why I Hiked and What I Learned

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/07/12

A summary of my Camino experience: what I hiked, why I hiked and what I learned. ________________⭐ Support the channel (thank you!)▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy_________________ 💬 Discord ▶ https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9_________________⌛Timestamps:0:00 Intro: What the Camino is02:15 What I Hiked08:18 Why I Hiked10:29 Liminality and the Challenges of Communicating the Experience11:51 My Philosophical Reasons for the Hike17:25 What My

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00:08:45

The Rural vs the Far Left — from Marx to AOC

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/06/18

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

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00:17:14

Structure vs. Communitas — the Two Modes of Human...

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/05/28

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

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00:09:27

Reactionary: Not Just a Right Wing Phenomenon

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/05/07

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

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00:08:50

What is a Radical? — the Political Archetype of Our Time

The Living Philosophy ·

2023/04/16

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

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