The public death of God would mean that the responsibilities of Morality have been thrust onto barely informed people. We would have to Take on the mantle of God/Truth into our own hands.
we build
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circuits within us for habitual action
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that we've practiced many times that
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seem to run in a very deterministic
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fashion and we are a strange combination
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of deterministic and non-deterministic
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as far as I can tell but what our
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consciousness seems to be for is to
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encounter those things that we have not
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yet encountered and those things that we
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have not yet encountered seem to me to
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be those things that have not yet been
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brought into being and so you could say
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that what our consciousness is for is
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for the encounter with potential you
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know that our consciousness is further
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it's not for the past it's not even for
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the present
Consciousness is to transform the future into the present
it
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is the case that human beings have a
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nature and and we have to contend with
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that nature and so we can't just create
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our own values and and what what young
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especially you Freud started it but
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especially you believed that well in
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some sense what had happened was that we
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had lost the externalized religious
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narrative that had been projected by our
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imagination out onto the world you know
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you think about the the constellations
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and and and the names of the
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constellations and the idea that the
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skies were populated by gods you know
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that was an externalization of our
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imagination right projected out into the
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world we were seeing the world through
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our imagination and which is exactly how
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we do see the world and as we proceed
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we're better able to distinguish let's
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say what's imagination from what
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subjective world but that doesn't mean
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the imagination disappears or that it's
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without value because the imagination is
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part of what helps us let's say confront
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the future because we do that with our
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imagination and to compose things in
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impossibility before we realize them in
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actuality so for young the world of gods
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just collapsed within back into the
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imagination and it was into the
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imagination that we had to go again to
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discover what we had lost to discover
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these lost values
we'd have to understand how it is that
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our conscious choices and our conscious
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ethical choices transform that
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potentiality into actuality into reality
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into the present in the past and we
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certainly but we certainly act as if we
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believe that that's what we do we
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upgrade ourselves for example when we do
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a bad job of it we're upset with our
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children and those we love if we don't
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believe that they're living up to their
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potential we're guilty and ashamed when
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we make choices that we feel are
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inappropriate we understand to some
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degree that the manner in which time
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lays itself out has something to do with
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that idea emphasized in
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ancient religious stories such as those
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that are outlined in Genesis or in
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Genesis with it's strange insistence
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that you know God is that which brings
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order out of chaos
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formless potential generates the world
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out of formless potential and that were
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somehow made in that image which which
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seems to me to be the case and at the
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proper way by the way to go about acting
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in that image is to act in relationship
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to the potential that confronts you with
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truth and with courage with careful
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articulation that's the logos and that
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if you do that then what you bring forth
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is is good
a pretty good that that idea
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that there's something divine let's say
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that resides within you of ultimate
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worth even as a philosophical statement
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or a psychological statement rather than
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a metaphysical statement it seems to be
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a precondition for establishing properly
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harmonious relationships with yourself
The Club of Rome coining the idea that (Overpopulation, privation, starvation; as human beings are cancerous to the planet) by year 2000, but Julian Simon vs. Paul Ehrlich argued— would the Earth run out of natural resources to sustain an ever-growing population
The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. -Frank Herbert
would say something about the
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burns are still healing you know I mean
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Nietzsche said that you could tell much
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about a man's character by how much
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truth he could tolerate which is very
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interesting you know there's not an idea
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in in in the in the great western
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tradition that the truth is the way and
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the path of life and and that no one
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comes to the Father except through the
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truth and and I believe that to be the
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case because I don't think that you can
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manifest who you are without the truth
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and so I think it's it's it's literally
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and metaphorically truth that the the
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pathway to who you could be if you were
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completely who you were is through the
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truth and I would say and so the truth
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does set you free but the problem is is
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that it destroys everything that isn't
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worthy in you as it sets you free and
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that's that's a process of burning and
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and and it's it's painful because you
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cling to what you shouldn't be partly
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out of pride and partly out of ignorance
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and partly out of laziness and and and
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so then you encounter something true
and
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you all know this you all know this
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well because when was the last time that
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you learned something important that
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wasn't a blow of some sort
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you all know this you all know this
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well because when was the last time that
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you learned something important that
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wasn't a blow of some sort
you know it's
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often you look back at your life and you
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think oh god I really learned something
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there I wouldn't want to do that again
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but it really changed my life I mean
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sometimes it can really destroy you you
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know an encounter with the truth and you
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never really recover but now and then
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something comes along and straightens
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you out and a lot of you has to go a law
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to you has to burn away you know and and
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and I suppose in some sense the idea is
90:03
that everything about you that isn't
90:04
worthy, is to be put into the flames and
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that's that's another reason to be not
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so casual about claiming what you
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believe —because it isn't something that
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you undertake with oh due caution
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often you look back at your life and you
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think oh god I really learned something
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there I wouldn't want to do that again
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but it really changed my life I mean
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sometimes it can really destroy you you
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know an encounter with the truth and you
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never really recover but now and then
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something comes along and straightens
89:55
you out and a lot of you has to go a law
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to you has to burn away you know and and
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and I suppose in some sense the idea is
90:03
that everything about you that isn't
90:04
worthy, is to be put into the flames and
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that's that's another reason to be not
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so casual about claiming what you
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believe —because it isn't something that
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you undertake with oh due caution
you
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know I learned when I was kid about 25
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or so little older than a kid that
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almost everything that I said was one
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form of lie or another and I wasn't any
90:40
worse I would say that the people that I
90:44
was associating with or any better and
90:46
and the lies were manifold you know they
90:49
were attempts to win arguments for the
90:52
sake of winning the argument that might
90:54
be one attempts to indicate my
90:59
intellectual prowess when there were
91:01
competitions of that sort maybe just the
91:04
the sheer pleasure of engaging in an
91:07
intact intellectual argument and winning
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my inability to distinguish between
91:13
ideas that I had read and
91:16
incorporated because I had read but had
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realized that I hadn't yet earned the
91:22
right to use all of that and you know I
91:25
had this experience that lasted a long
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time while I would say it's really never
91:28
gone away, and I think this was the
91:31
awakening of my conscience essentially
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and I didn't realize that this until
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much later when I was reading Socrates
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apology this this voice for lack of a
91:43
better
91:44
made itself manifest inside me and it
91:48
said every time I said something that
91:51
wasn't true and that's usually what it
91:54
said— that's not true —you don't believe
91:57
that .....or there was a sensation that was
92:00
associated with it I don't think this is
92:02
that uncommon you know I asked my
92:04
psychology classes for many years in a
92:06
row if they hadn't experienced this
92:10
experience that they had a voice in
92:12
their head let's say it's a metaphor or
92:15
a feeling that communicated to them when
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they were about to do something wrong
90:26
know I learned when I was kid about 25
90:29
or so little older than a kid that
90:33
almost everything that I said was one
90:36
form of lie or another and I wasn't any
90:40
worse I would say that the people that I
90:44
was associating with or any better and
90:46
and the lies were manifold you know they
90:49
were attempts to win arguments for the
90:52
sake of winning the argument that might
90:54
be one attempts to indicate my
90:59
intellectual prowess when there were
91:01
competitions of that sort maybe just the
91:04
the sheer pleasure of engaging in an
91:07
intact intellectual argument and winning
91:10
my inability to distinguish between
91:13
ideas that I had read and
91:16
incorporated because I had read but had
91:19
realized that I hadn't yet earned the
91:22
right to use all of that and you know I
91:25
had this experience that lasted a long
91:27
time while I would say it's really never
91:28
gone away, and I think this was the
91:31
awakening of my conscience essentially
91:34
and I didn't realize that this until
91:37
much later when I was reading Socrates
91:39
apology this this voice for lack of a
91:43
better
91:44
made itself manifest inside me and it
91:48
said every time I said something that
91:51
wasn't true and that's usually what it
91:54
said— that's not true —you don't believe
91:57
that .....or there was a sensation that was
92:00
associated with it I don't think this is
92:02
that uncommon you know I asked my
92:04
psychology classes for many years in a
92:06
row if they hadn't experienced this
92:10
experience that they had a voice in
92:12
their head let's say it's a metaphor or
92:15
a feeling that communicated to them when
92:20
they were about to do something wrong
and it was universally the case that
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people agreed with one of those
92:28
statements or another and the other
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thing I would ask is well do you always
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listen to it and of course the answer to
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that was definitely no —but that's also
92:36
very interesting you know that you can
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have this faculty this conscience this
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seems to me to be very tightly
92:43
associated with the idea of free will is
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that you can have this internal voice
92:48
this Damon
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the root word for democracy
(oh yes I
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didn't finish that story so the yes well
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it's important well so Socrates Damon
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told him it was his moral guide and
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democracy appears to be predicated on
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the idea that the polity will function
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if people attend to their consciousness
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that's the that's the that's the overlap
93:13
of those conceptualizations and that's
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that that's it well first of all I think
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that's the case you know and it makes a
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certain amount of logical sense I mean
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if we assume that the political state is
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something like the emergent consequence
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of the decisions of all its citizens we
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would assume that the wiser the
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decisions of the citizens the more
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