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The Hubris of the Enlightenment | Dr Iain McGilchrist

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In this video, Iain McGilchrist explores the difference between attaining knowledge and understanding knowledge, explaining how lack of understanding can impact society.
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has many other prestigious scholarly associations. He is the author of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, and his latest book is The Matter with Things.
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@jawneethecurious Месяц назад

The logic and reasoning explained here is far more profound that perhaps we realize! McGilchrist nails the problem so well, so accurate, and so wise. Excellent video, and… and excellent channel too Mr. John Anderson, I watch you all the time…

@Fieldwalker264 Месяц назад

". . . skills and wisdom which are acquired through the living of a good life. . ." How many of these manning the bureaucracies are living good lives? Good as classically defined. I love this man.

@wallypoffle7796 Месяц назад

Watch Malcolm Roberts' excerpts from senate hearings. Questioning public servants is like trying to swim through treacle. Collectivism and centralization are a disaster for humanity !

@wallypoffle7796 Месяц назад

What an incredible intellect !

@tompommerel2136 Месяц назад

Great points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@lightgatha Месяц назад

That Enlightenment. Also known as stepping deeper into the Cave.

@newtalking3 Месяц назад

Hoe do we hear the entire interview?

@user-ul9dv2iv9s Месяц назад

Tap on the title "John Anderson Media" underneath the thumbnail picture. This will take you to the channel details. Tap on the heading, videos. This will give you the list of videos from most recent to oldest, or whatever option you care to choose. Scroll away. Alternatively. Go to search, type in John Anderson and the name of the person being interviewed, then scroll down the list after you press go to search or the equivalent according to your platform.

@luisantos1996 Месяц назад

Andrew Huberman, Jordan Peterson and him would make a good trio to dig into neuroscience and psycology, and how both correlated.

@gilhardwick2269 Месяц назад

Disagree. 'The Enlightenment' is not a person. People suffer hubris, not abstractions. What I see taking place in our intellectual life is a loss of recognition of and respect for the positive gains real people worked so hard for and achieved. Today, despite the occasional set-backs, the odd hubris, we have over 8 billion people on the planet living at a far higher standard than anybody at all 'pre-Enlightenment'. But what they did achieve, the intelligent thought and active agency behind enlightened philosophical, religious, political and economic reform, is being abstracted and reified into something else again, a label put on it, and not being perfect - nothing ever is - treated as some great wrong inflicted on humanity; a failure of those who pursued it not an achievement. What I see happening in the world is increasing disconnect from practical day-to-day reality, bogged down in this morose, I think hypocritical intellectualising on all that is 'wrong' in the world when there is no point to it. So what? The very real benefits are overwhelming. Are we to succumb to misery and depression at a time in history when humanity has never been better off? Is that our legacy for our children? No, I will not inflict that upon them; I'm glad of it, I remain in awe of what great minds inspiring great people have achieved and I do hope and pray we continue to achieve.

@emilymiller1792 Месяц назад

I agree. Western culture hasn't been inclined towards the Enlightenment or its ideals for a hundred years. Western culture has wallowed in the Materialist era that is far more atomised and devoid of the philosophy of the Enlightenment. There is a "Reimagining" afoot that seeks to Reimagine everything towards some WEF-inspired, predetermined future. Since everything will be "future-driven" according to their goals, the past is a hindrance and best torn down and disposed of. It would be better for us if we recalled the Enlightenment and the development of republics, self-governance, liberty, and the aspects aimed toward Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

@emilymiller1792 Месяц назад

The Enlightenment wasn't just about information and trying to understand everything. The Methodist church is being torn apart right now, probably because it carries John Wesley's Enlightenment sensibilities. He'd be rolling over in his grave if he saw what was being done not only to the Methost church but to the world at large. The bureaucratic and technical spirit, guided by algorithms is a recent development, encouraged by excesses of the state and technology. The Enlightenment got corrupted and deformed. It is not the fault of the Enlightenment; rather, it is because we forgot the Enlightenment.

@user-ul9dv2iv9s Месяц назад

Chaos may lead to tyranny but anarchism? Hardly. A small error but the biggie, the absolute screamer is the idea that the enlightenment was about hubris. That human beings can answer everything. Really? Since when was this central to the enlightenment? Its true, that tools can and have been developed that caused a boom in our understanding of reality in a micro second of time relatively speaking. That this is a position of optimism in the possibilities set before us as a species. But to know everything? This is a particularly religious view of reality. That there is no room for enquiry. That the religious mindset does not allow for the simple statement... "I dont know".

@seanmoran2743 Месяц назад

Who created the abstract concepts People

@gilhardwick2269 Месяц назад

@@seanmoran2743 Sure, which people, when? Some subject who created an object at some time? The object they created is not the active agent in the transaction, the person is. Speaking in the abstract without reference to the people who created it is pointless; Dr Gilchrist himself here is doing precisely what he worries other people do, which is the point I made. The best anyone can make of what he's saying is his confusing Enlightenment with Bureaucracy. It strikes me that this is the sort of mindless objection to people thinking for themselves that resisted enlightened thought in the first place. People settled into positions of influence and authority inherently resist fresh young minds coming along wanting a place for themselves in the scheme of things in their turn, and as here dream up all sorts of obtuse argument to throw at them in a vain effort to distract them. I'm in my 70s myself, grew up with this stuff, so what is it now I still need to 'understand' beyond what I 'know'? Sensible discussion, please.

@bosse641 Месяц назад

Apart from God we're lost. ...and it ends nowhere.

@seanmoran2743 Месяц назад

Lots of Hubristic followers of the Enlightenment in the modern world People like Stephen Fry Dawkins Harris etc etc etc etc

@user-ul9dv2iv9s Месяц назад

Chaos may lead to tyranny but anarchism? Hardly. A small error but the biggie, the absolute screamer is the idea that the enlightenment was about hubris. That human beings can answer everything. Really? Since when was this central to the enlightenment? Its true, that tools can and have been developed that caused a boom in our understanding of reality in a micro second of time relatively speaking. That this is position of optimism in the possibilities set before us as a species. But to know everything? This is a particularly religious view of reality. That there is no room for enquiry. That the religious mindset does not allow for the simple statement... "I dont know".

@emilymiller1792 Месяц назад

I agree with much of what you say, except for the last bit about the religious mindset not being able to say, "I don't know." What do you mean, because we very likely have different ideas about this. My perception is that religious people would not claim to be all-knowing, since that is only a capacity of God. And, many religious people enjoy enquiry, as it is a means to understand His world better.

@user-ul9dv2iv9s Месяц назад

When I was a christian we knew who we were and why we are here. We knew the purpose of everything. We knew where we were going. Creationism is not a matter of enquiry. It is a confirmation of a written authority.