Philosophy Talk John Perry and Ken Taylor chat with Hubert Dreyfus about nihilism, the meaning of life, and other silly things. The image is detail from Joan Miró's La Leçon de Ski.
In response to Israel5: I think most people just do live their lives and don't ask much about the kinds of goals that drive their lives. But for many people for the past century or more, this has become difficult. Think of Eliot's The Wasteland or Yeats The Second Coming, or the Dylan song Dreyfus quotes in the second section of this podcast. If previous generations could say that the world is the way it is because God has made it so, many today cannot say this or believe this.
Talks about "meaning" is a "meta" discourse. We don't need to pursuit it. We can do mathematics without meta-mathematics. We just have to live one's life without meta-living. Or is this impossible? Just like we will always have politics.
In response to Israel5: I think most people just do live their lives and don't ask much about the kinds of goals that drive their lives. But for many people for the past century or more, this has become difficult. Think of Eliot's The Wasteland or Yeats The Second Coming, or the Dylan song Dreyfus quotes in the second section of this podcast. If previous generations could say that the world is the way it is because God has made it so, many today cannot say this or believe this.
ekhelmekhel 6 months ago in playlist Sermones Inner Lens of Perception
Talks about "meaning" is a "meta" discourse. We don't need to pursuit it. We can do mathematics without meta-mathematics. We just have to live one's life without meta-living. Or is this impossible? Just like we will always have politics.
Israe5l 1 year ago