YouTube: Dialectical Thinking (Part 3): The Real In-Itself, Hegel's System and its Final Frontier Welcome to part 3 of dialectical thinking. In this article we will be carrying on from Part 1 and 2, focused on the Real in-itself, Hegel's system, and its final frontier. In this approach we are going to be identifying a … Continue reading Dialectical Thinking (Part 3)
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Dialectical Thinking (Part 2)
YouTube: Dialectical Thinking (Part 2): Principle of Dialectical Negativity and the Beyond of Religion and Science In this second essay on dialectical thinking we are going to be covering Part 2, "Principle of Dialectical Negativity and the Beyond of Religion and Science". In using the principle of dialectical negativity in order to go beyond both … Continue reading Dialectical Thinking (Part 2)
Dialectical Thinking (Part 1)
YouTube: Dialectical Thinking (Part 1): Origins of the Search for Truth, and the Consequences for Fundamental Theory This is a lecture series focused on dialectical thinking that will be focused in three parts. The first part focuses on "Origins of the Search for Truth, and its Consequences for Fundamental Theory"; the second part focuses on … Continue reading Dialectical Thinking (Part 1)
Plato’s Parmenides (Theory of Forms)
YouTube: Plato's Parmenides (Theory of Forms) Welcome to a special lecture focus on Plato's Parmenides. Plato's Parmenides is a famous dialogue where Plato attempts to articulate the "Middle Period" of his "Theory of Forms". The Theory of Forms is meant to demonstrate the relationship between Sense-Perception of the world, and Logical Form, or the content … Continue reading Plato’s Parmenides (Theory of Forms)
Return to Freud (1): Contradiction and Causality
I recently had the opportunity to organize an online course focused on understanding the Freudian unconscious in the context of modern philosophy. This was an opportunity to return to the original documents published by Freud on the discovery of the unconscious, and also see the way in which this discovery is interpreted by speculative theorists … Continue reading Return to Freud (1): Contradiction and Causality
Sex and the Failed Absolute (Žižek Lecture Overview)
YouTube: Sex and the Failed Absolute Last week I had a chance to attend a Masterclass at Birkbeck, University of London presented by Slavoj Žižek titled "Sex and the Failed Absolute". In this work I want to give an overview of the core information presented at that lecture and hopefully give my own interpretation which … Continue reading Sex and the Failed Absolute (Žižek Lecture Overview)
What Should We Do with Our Brains? From Cognitive Science to Psychoanalysis
YouTube video here: What Should We Do with Our Brains? From Cognitive Science to Psychoanalysis I am preparing an upcoming workshop on the topic of thought and how we should relate to thought in the modern world. How should we act today? How should we educate today? How should we relate to others today? What … Continue reading What Should We Do with Our Brains? From Cognitive Science to Psychoanalysis
The God Delusion: Towards a Materialist Atheist Synthesis
YouTube video here: The God Delusion: Towards a Materialist Atheist Synthesis I this [article] I want to both introduce you to an interesting tension in modern philosophical theory and also introduce you to a potentially interesting new way to approach this tension. The tension I am speaking about is the tension of the existence or … Continue reading The God Delusion: Towards a Materialist Atheist Synthesis
Jacques Lacan and the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real
Video: Jacques Lacan and the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real In this [essay] I want to introduce you to psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of the triadic structure of the mind under the notions of the imaginary-symbolic-real formula. However, I not only want to introduce you to this concept, I also want to attempt to convince you that the geometrical … Continue reading Jacques Lacan and the Imaginary-Symbolic-Real