“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead
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The End of “Philosophy of Freedom”
Our study of Steiner’s book isn’t merely an intellectual exercise; it represents a form of fellowship that has been palpable throughout our journey. Even though it’s saddening to conclude today, remember that we are merely finishing this book, with much more lying ahead of us. My lecture focuses on the final chapter, “The Consequences of Read more
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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
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Rudolf Steiner and Racism
Update Jan 31, 2024: The conversation continues on our Urphänomen Substack page. 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 Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Darwin, Heidegger, Modern Philosophy, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, politics, race, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reason, Religion, Romantic Philosophy, Rudolf Steiner
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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
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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
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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
“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
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