“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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Revolutionary Left podcast introducing German Idealism
I was invited back on the Rev Left podcast to lay out the dialectical twists and turns of the German Idealist movement. Link here: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/german-idealism Read more
Copernican Revolution, Darwin, David Chalmers, Fichte, Goethe, Hegel, Hume, imagination, Kant, Modern Philosophy, politics, reason, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Spinoza
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Integral Facticity podcast with Erik Haines: Varieties of Integral & the Next Left
More info: https://medium.com/integral-facticity/matt-segall-on-the-varieties-of-integral-michael-brooks-the-next-left-af41e79a8a0e Read more
Alan Watts, Alfred North Whitehead, autopoiesis, Brian Swimme, Carl Jung, Evan Thompson, Fichte, Francisco Varela, Gilles Deleuze, Hegel, Henri Bergson, Jakob Böhme, Jean Gebser, Kant, Ken Wilber, Meister Eckhart, Modern Philosophy, politics, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reason, Religion, Richard Tarnas, Romantic Philosophy, Schelling, Sean Kelly, Thomas Berry, William Irwin Thompson, William James
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Evolutionary Thinking with Timothy Jackson
Below are parts 1 and 2 of my dialogue with toxinologist and evolutionary philosopher Timothy Jackson. We discuss everything from the philosophy of science and evolutionary epistemology, to the social and cultural impact of evolution, to the full-blown evolutionary cosmologies of thinkers like Whitehead and Peirce. Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, autopoiesis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, David Chalmers, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Modern Philosophy, reason, Richard Dawkins, Romantic Philosophy
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Today is an endless genesis.
A bit of cosmocinematic spellcasting inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s Interdisciplinary Astronomy Course Today was June the tenth. The year two thousand and twenty two. Today, the Earth continued weaving its way through space. Through a space twisted out of time by lunar tides and solar seasons. A space that did not pre-exist our movement through Read more
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Infinite Weird Podcast: The Many Become One and Are Increased By One
Had a great time chatting with Matthew Sherling yesterday about my own journey, how I got into Whitehead’s work, and what his basic categories of concrescence and prehension mean. Read more
Alfred North Whitehead, Ancient Philosophy, Goethe, Modern Philosophy, Plato, reason, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Socrates
“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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