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243 - Dr. Iain McGilchrist - Beyond Materialism - The Matter With Things

The Symbolic World

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The Mediaeval Mind and the Memento Mori

After the fall of rome and through till the early renaissance, there is something entirely continuous going on. And it's with the renaissance that one sees a big shift. So i'm interested in those big shifts because i think they're associated with hemispheric shifts. It has nothing to do with movements in the history of ideas. But what i was talking about was the different ways in which the history of idea has taken cataclysmic turns.

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