Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Jan 30, 2023

01:52:29

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Ontology and Patterns of Interaction in the World

01:47

Pragmatist Truth, You Know?

01:38

Is There a Deep Continuity Between Christian Theology and Science?

01:34

Introduction

1min

Is the Buddha an Nihilist?

2min

What's the Buddha Saying About the World?

2min

Is There a Middle Way to Nihilism?

2min

The Misunderstanding of the Darwinist View of Survival of the Fittest

2min

Is There a Difference Between Survival and Fitness?

2min

Is There a Middle Way?

2min

The Dependant Origination Claim or the Ontological Middle Way Claim

2min

What the Hell Is Emptiness?

2min

10.

Yoga Chara - Mind Only One

1min

11.

The Dependent Origination Concept

2min

12.

Is There a Forward Causal View?

2min

13.

Do You Know How to Do Dependent Origination?

2min

14.

Why Would You Want to Undermine Concepts?

1min

15.

Seeing Underneath Concepts

2min

16.

Is the Buddhist Claim a Pragmatist Idea?

2min

17.

Pragmatist Truth, You Know?

2min

18.

Is There a Relationship Between Ontologies and Ontology?

1min

19.

Is There a Single Overarching Norm?

2min

20.

Is There a Truth in the West?

2min

21.

Is There a Consensus Within a Particular Epistemic Community?

2min

22.

Getting Away With Having This Course in Physics

1min

23.

Social Consensus Constructivist View

2min

24.

Is There a Glass on the Table Like You Say True or False?

2min

25.

The Buddhist Practice as I Understand It

2min

26.

Sakratic Method

2min

27.

Paying Closer Attention to Phenomenas as Phänomens

2min

28.

The Concept of Emptiness Is Not About Concepts

2min

29.

Terra Vato Vapostana - How the Sausage of Concepts Get Generated

2min

30.

Vajrayana in Mahayana Buddhism

2min

31.

Pre-Normative Buddhism - Is Dependent Origination Dependently Originated?

2min

32.

Socrates and the Vipasana Movement and the Socratic Dialogue

2min

33.

Socratic Questionings of Piety

2min

34.

Socratic Dialogues - Conceptual Analysis by Parts Reduces Suffering

2min

35.

Is There a Buddha in Sakritis?

2min

36.

Parenism and Parasyma - I Love Pareness

2min

37.

Dukkha and Asthathmeta

2min

38.

The Free Energy Principle

2min

39.

The Middle Way Is Not Just a Middle Way

2min

40.

The Four Yogas That Are Designed to End Suffering

2min

41.

Chapman's Meta Rationality Book

2min

42.

The Metaphysical Club - Darwin's New Scientific Theory

2min

43.

Lucretius Fancesbakin and Sphenosa Are Obviously Wrong and They're Obviously Blinded by Theological Pre-Commitments

2min

44.

The Puranist Crisis in Antiquity

2min

45.

The Enlightenment Is a Rediscovery of the Puranist Texts

2min

46.

Theology and the Perinist Crisis in the Enlightenment

2min

47.

The Purinist Recovery of Purinism Is a Switch to Concentration Meditation

2min

48.

Is There a Deep Continuity Between Christian Theology and Science?

2min

49.

The Purinist School Is a Kind of Dogmatic School

2min

50.

Purinists Are Doing It for Their Own Enlightenment

1min

51.

The End of Suffering Is Not a Static State

2min

52.

The Perinist Prescription Is You Shouldn't Have You Should Never Ever Arrive at Truth or Should You Ever Give Up the Search

2min

53.

The Perinist Criticism and the Free Energy Principle

2min

54.

Ontology and Patterns of Interaction in the World

2min

55.

The Only Like Viable Strategy Long Run Is Perpetual Like Awareness That Is Respondent to the Circumstance as It Presents Itself Now

2min

56.

Is There a Postmodern Critique of Science?

2min

57.

I Think the Only Kind of Substantive Moral Commitment at Issue Would Be Like a Normative Commitment

2min

58.

Is There Any Access to Materialism Outside the Sensitive?

2min

59.

Kant's Idea of the Numinon and the Phenomenon

2min

60.

The New Manon Phenomenon

2min

61.

How to Get Really Good at Perception and Action and Perception

2min

62.

The Order Matters

2min

63.

The Frame Problem and It's One Is an Inch

2min

64.

The Black Swan

2min

65.

The Characteristic Philosopher's Error

2min

66.

The Relationship Between Syntax and Formal Rationality in Aristotelian Logic

2min

67.

You Know What Is Consciousness and Why Is It Always There?

3min

I loved having this conversation with Jake. In it, we discuss Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, Pyrrhonism, pragmatism, and different theories of truth. Stay tuned for more!

Read Jake's thread on Darwin's new type of scientific theory.

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