Three Paradoxes | The Vervaeke Series | Episode 9 (WiM066)
The "What is Money?" Show
The Age of Anxiety
The philosopher isa physician of the soul, by discovering this dimension to wisdom that was only implicit in the socratic platonic tradition. The helenistic perid comes after the axtual revolution. It's like the grand unifying field theory of human religiosity into nea platonism. And then ne platonism gets integrated with all of the profound myth mythos ofi of youno, of christianity. An you get, you get the grand synthesis of people like augustine.
John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis."
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Transcript:
OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 Domicide: The Loss of Home
00:03:19 The Meaning Crisis as Cosmic Domicide
00:06:17 Niche Construction, Baldwin Effect, and Co-Creation of Identities
00:08:48 Worldview Attunement: Mutual Shaping of Agent and Arena
00:10:00 Conspiracy Theory: An Attempt to Use Mythos to Home Reality
00:12:29 Domicide and the Violation of Property Rights
00:16:45 Democracy’s Contribution to Domicide
00:18:02 The Original Meaning of Violence is “To Violate”
00:18:49 Property Consists of the Things Which Constitute Identity
00:19:44 Niche Construction: Mediation Between Territory and Property
00:21:03 Christianity Turned the Ancient Roman Empire into a Home
00:22:25 “Call No Man a Philosopher Who Has Not Alleviated the Suffering of Others”
00:23:29 The Ancient Roman Monopoly on Violence
00:26:50 “It’s Not the State that Makes Us Persons, It’s Agape”
00:28:21 “The Narcissist is Hungry to Be At Home, But Conquers Territory Instead”
00:30:09 Inviolable Property is the Immortality of Civilization
00:35:37 The Tension Between Time Preference and Presence
00:38:11 A Point of Processing Between Ontological Modes
00:41:24 The Domicidal Case of the Grassy Narrows
00:45:03 The Hellenistic Domicide, Stoicism, and Valorization of The Logos
00:48:07 “It’s Not What You Set Your Heart On, It’s How You Set Your Heart”
00:50:10 NYDIG
00:51:18 “He Who Has a Why Can Bear Any How”
00:52:22 Domicide as the Scarcity of Meaning
00:58:22 Post-1971 Centralization, Corruption, and Zombie Mythology
01:02:23 Zombie Mythology as an Inversion of Christianity
01:03:41 Property as a Socioeconomic “Optimal Grip”
01:06:06 The Connection Between Self-Ownership and Optimal Grip of Virtue
01:08:38 The Paradox of Courage: Water and Wine
01:10:19 The Mythos of Moby Dick
01:13:17 Zombie: The Symbol of The Meaning Crisis
01:15:39 “Of Course They’re Called Zombie Companies!”
01:18:22 Secular Religiosity: The Deep Faith In Ideological Stances
01:19:54 Philosophy: The Resolution to The Age of Anxiety
01:21:27 Christianity as Mediator of “Individuation” and “Participation”
01:23:41 Attraction Between The Christian Mythos and Neo-Platonic Logos
01:24:46 Wisdom: Transcendence of The Meaning Crisis
01:28:30 The Cognitive Conceptual Grammar vs. The Scientific Worldview
01:31:06 The Paradox of Religiosity in America: Non-Theist Theism
01:33:38 Fundamentalism and Perceived Perfection
01:34:49 Nihilism is Fundamentalism in The Scientific Worldview
01:36:30 The Paradox of Science: “Science Has No Part of The Scientific Worldview”
01:38:49 Transjectivity: Transcending Subject-Object Duality
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