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#455 - Iain McGilchrist - The Wisdom Of Intuition
Modern Wisdom
Why Intuition Doesn't Work
In greek there were four or five important words for knowledge and wisdom, sophia. And they showed an enormous sophistication in their understanding of what these things were. But nowadays we seem to think that if something is a rationalistic in the way that a com could follow it, then we've achieved a full understanding - but that very rarely leads to a full understanding. Indeed, there is a condition in which people can only reach conclusions by reasoning about them, not by experience and not by intuition. It's called scitzophrenia. Scizophena is, of course, archetype example of what ushally call madness. We need to bring to bear a number of different strands
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