Category Archives: The Self
Knowledge: An Oration
“Knowledge itself is unknowable.” —from Plato’s dialogue The Theaetetus “All men naturally reach out for knowledge.” —Aristotle “Knowledge itself is power.” —Roger Bacon I. Today I will tell you a story about how we traveled through time, discovering and collecting … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, History, The Self
Tagged ancient, collapse of civilization, Hominids, Homo sapiens, knowledge, Nature, the gods
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“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
This is the answer the renown and revered psychologist Carl Gustav Jung gave to the final question posed to him by the British interviewer, John Freeman, in 1959. I offer here my transcript of the final nine minutes of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Philosophy & Psychology, The Mind, The Self
Tagged belief, Carl Gustav Jung, death, good and evil, John Freeman
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