“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead
-
Topological Inversions in the Life, Death, and Rebirth of Human Beings (lecture by Rudolf Steiner during WW1)
Rudolf Steiner Nachlass-VerwaltungTranslated by ChatGPT4 GA 174b – Lecture Eight Stuttgart, March 15, 1916 CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF THIS LECTURE TRANSCRIPT The last time we spoke here, during my previous presence, we examined some spiritual facts that relate to the life of the human soul after the human has passed through the gateway… Read more
-
Rudolf Steiner and Racism
As a teacher, I do my best to actively encourage deep and sustained dialogue about the racism, implicit or explicit, that shows up in the statements or actions of any figure studied with my students. Many modern European and American thinkers, including all the German idealists, Darwin, Nietzsche, Emerson, Whitehead, Jung, Teilhard, Heidegger, etc., have made… Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Darwin, Heidegger, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, politics, race, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner
-
Platonizing Biology: a dialogue with Michael Levin
Thanks to Karen for hosting this conversation on The Meaning Code. We started with a high level issue: the relationship between metaphysics and/or (philosophical) cosmology and the special sciences. I wanted to be sure he understood that I as a philosopher am in no way trying to tell scientists how to define or understand their… Read more
-
Mind and Life in the Cosmos
I’m sharing a version of a lecture I delivered for the Pari Center earlier this morning. Read more
Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, autopoiesis, Catherine Keller, Darwin, Descartes, Donna Haraway, Francisco Varela, Galileo, imagination, Isabelle Stengers, Kant, Modern Philosophy, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Spinoza
-
The Integral Stage Authors Series (interview by Layman Pascal about “Crossing the Threshold”)
I’ve pasted the transcript below with timestamps (this is autogenerated from YouTube and so has some errors, but it is readable!). 0:34 welcome back to the author series on guess what The Integral Stage. I’m Layman Pascal on behalf of myself, Bruce 0:41 Alderman, and the Unspeakable future of life on Earth. And today we’re… Read more
Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Brian Swimme, Catherine Keller, Coleridge, Copernican Revolution, Descartes, Fichte, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, Heidegger, Hume, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Plato, Raimon Panikkar, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner, Schelling, Wittgenstein
-
Online Book Release Event this Saturday, April 29 at 12pm PT
My new book Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead (Integral Imprint/Revelore Press) was published a few days ago. Next weekend (4/29 at 12pm Pacific), I’ll be doing an online book release event in my Discord server (you can access Discord from your browser if you don’t have… Read more
“In one sense philosophy does nothing. It merely satisfies the entirely impractical craving to probe and adjust ideas which have been found adequate each in its special sphere of use. In the same way the ocean tides do nothing. Twice daily they beat upon the cliffs of continents and then retire. But have patience and look deeper; and you find that in the end whole continents of thought have been submerged by philosophic tides, and have been rebuilt in the depths awaiting emergence. The fate of humanity depends upon the ultimate continental faith by which it shapes its action, and this faith is in the end shaped by philosophy.”
—Alfred North Whitehead
Alan Watts Albert Einstein Alfred North Whitehead Ancient Philosophy Andy Clark Aristotle autopoiesis Brian Swimme Bruno Latour Carl Jung Catherine Keller Coleridge Copernican Revolution Corey Anton Daniel Dennett Darwin David Chalmers Descartes Donna Haraway Edmund Husserl Emmanuel Levinas Eric Smith Ernst Cassirer Evan Thompson Extended Mind Fichte Francisco Varela Galileo Gilles Deleuze Goethe Graham Harman Hegel Heidegger Henri Bergson Heraclitus Herbert Marcuse Hume Iain Hamilton Grant imagination Isabelle Stengers Jakob Böhme James Hillman Jean Gebser Jessica Garfield-Kabbara john Keats Kant Ken Wilber Kepler Leron Shults Levi Bryant Meister Eckhart Modern Philosophy Owen Barfield Paul Churchland Philip Clayton Pierre Hadot Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Plato Pluto poetry politics Ptolemy PZ Myers quentin meillassoux race Raimon Panikkar Ralph Waldo Emerson Ray Brassier reason Religion Richard Dawkins Richard Doyle Richard Tarnas Robert N. Bellah Romantic Philosophy Rudolf Steiner Schelling Sean Kelly Seth Segall Simon Critchley Slavoj Žižek Socrates speculative realism Spinoza Steven Shaviro Thomas Berry Timothy Morton Travel Ursula King William Blake William Irwin Thompson William James Wittgenstein
Site Navigation
Follow me on social media.
© 2006-2023 Matthew David Segall
Footnotes2Plato 