269 - John Vervaeke - After Socrates
The Symbolic World
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Transpersonal Agency
I've been thinking a lot about the idea of transpersonal agency in terms of again trying to bridge the traditional categories like the angiology of the ancient world. I think it's completely legitimate for us with knowledge that we have that people in the past didn't have to make criticisms but I think its also important to realize that we as you said are also locked into ways of seeing that might be open to serious education by paying attention to what other cultures at other times have said even our own culture in previous historical epochs. We had a way of reading Plato that was largely so that we could put Plato behind us so that we can get to Descartes this is like this introduction to philosophy
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