
Ep. 22 - Descartes vs. Hobbes
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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The Loss of Participatory Knowing in the Scientific Revolution
Pascal argues that the scientific revolution has left us bereft of the capacity for transformative truth, transformative knowing. And we've lost participatory knowing, knowing that is part and parcel of how we are bound up with someone else in a process of reciprocal revelation. We're now stuck where Socrates was at the beginning of the Exo revolution. But as I'm going to show you next time, we tried secular pseudo-religious alternatives and they drenched the world in blood. Thank you very much for your time and attention.
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