Tuesday, 12 July 2022

John Vervaeke, Ep. 7 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Aristotle's World View and Erich Fromm

Having mode and Being mode, existential confusion, via Aristotle and others. This episode moves us towards mindfulness and how "Having mode and Being mode" have in some ways been weaponised (I don't think that's too strong a metaphor) to make us seek meaning in things. This episode is getting into the granularity of "us" and how we have lost sight of how great thinkers and philosophers in bygone times laid the foundations for the process of civilising ourselves and looking beyond brute survival to satisfy our Having Needs and our Being Needs without out confusing the two (see line one above).



 

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