"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." —Alfred North Whitehead
Relevant links to the argument between me, Levi Bryant, and Graham Harman:
Levi Bryant Mis-reading Whitehead?
Whitehead’s Process Atomism (Response to Graham Harman)
Object as subject-superject, or why Harman is wrong about Whitehead
Occasionalism in Whitehead and Harman
Harman’s Crucified Objects and Whitehead’s God: More on Withdrawal
Iain McGilchrist is the author of several books, most recently The Master and His Emissary.
What if we are not born with fully formed eternal souls, but must each grow our own in time? What if psyche, like physis, is a relational process, and not an independent substance?
McGilchrist quotes James Hillman: “The soul is not an object, but a way of knowing objects.”
McGilchrist wants to resurrect Plato’s theory of vision, where physical light comes into the eyes while spiritual light goes out of it.
