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Ep. 23 - Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

The Ralston College Podcast

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The Difference Between Reason and Reason

We need to make two distinctions. One is between things that are beyond the grasp of ar what people commonly conceive of as reason, and things that are within its grasp. And the other is a defence of a different kind of reason. In english, unfortunately, we don't make much of a distinction. But in greek, in latin and in german, there are distinct words for two kinds of reason. The more you know, the more you understand. That's a very different kind of reasoning, one that cannot emerge from a computer. My god, how nostalgic that makes me when i look at the world around me and how very few voices i hear that i can call reasonable

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