🌀 How to Embody Your Philosophy and Change the World
Insights into the Limits of Science, Importance of Philosophy, Dialectical Thinking, What Jordan Peterson & Richard Dawkins Have in Common & So Much More.
In today's increasingly interconnected world, problems that were once confined to specific regions have become global issues we all must face.
Human thought has never existed in isolation, but now, our perspectives are more interconnected than ever before.
This entanglement heightens both the risks and rewards of our existence, offering us the potential to vastly improve life or contribute to planetary extinction.
As the power of science and technology continue to advance it is only the wisdom of philosophy that can channel that power in the service of the highest good.
Not the distant, theoretical philosophy of academia, but a living, breathing philosophy that compels us to think deeply, feel intensely and act according to our innermost truths.
This is the philosophy Cadell Last embodies and teaches through his online educational platform, Philosophy Portal.
Originally trained as an evolutionary anthropologist, Cadell spent many years studying biology before realizing that science alone couldn't answer life's deepest questions.
This epiphany led him to explore phenomenology and psychoanalysis, opening new perspectives that helped him navigate life's most challenging aspects.
Today, his work delves into biocultural evolution, the mind-matter relationship, and speculative futures, offering fresh insights and guiding us toward a more thoughtful and connected existence.
Click the video below to tune into our wide-ranging conversation where we speak about the limits of science and the Importance of philosophy, connecting dead philosophers with living philosophers, dialectical thinking, what Jordan Peterson & Richard Dawkins have in common, Global Brain Singularity and so much more.
Memorable Quotes 🗣️
On Developing a Robust Meta-Ontology:
“If there's a thinker that you think is foundational in the ancient world, then you can build with that thinker into the modern world, and then build with that thinker into the postmodern world, and then build with that thinker into something that's transcending the modern world, then you have something like a meta ontology that's robust, that doesn't leave out any significant dimension of the historical process.
On contact with living philosophers:
“Don't just engage with dead philosophers. It's very important to have some contact with a living philosopher, And I think the reason why that's important is because philosophy is almost like eternity refreshing itself in every historical generation.
On making philosophy pragmatic:
“When world historical crisis breaks out, That's the time for philosophy to get its hands dirty. And that's a really important a dimension, which I think Ivy League elite university philosophy sometimes takes a distance from.”
On Understanding before Criticizing:
“You have to really do the work before you can critique or deconstruct or negate these thinkers”
On Dialectics:
“I came to dialectical thinking and I found that to be a more useful approach to dealing with differences, to dealing with oppositions, to dealing with antagonisms, to dealing with contradiction, both in myself and in the other. And it has very concrete application. I think dialectics is useful for a marriage. I think dialectics is useful for a business. I think dialectics is useful for life.”
On Religion:
“The proper way to think about religion today is as what's actually moving society universally on the level of virtual motion.”
“If you're contained by religion could that even be a buffer against God? It's like actually God's too terrifying to know directly so religions like a buffer to keep you safe from God because if you actually confront God, it's too terrifying to bear.”
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