Episode #21: A Brief History of Western Thought

This episode roughly outlines the evolution of Western thought. You might experience these fools as
‘coming from a lot of different angles.’ This conversation aims to contextualize some of those angles, highlighting the connections between philosophy, psychology, and religion.

00:00 Shamanism and Philosophy's Relevance Today
02:55 The Pre-Socratic Philosophers: Chaos and Order
05:56 Metaphysics and the Nature of Reality
08:48 Plato vs. Aristotle
11:55 The Evolution of Epistemology: From Descartes to Hume
14:54 The Enlightenment
18:06 Kant and the Phenomenal vs. Numinal World
20:58 Hegel's Dialectic
23:48 The Intersection of Morality and Evolution
42:57 The Enlightenment and Its Challenges
49:16 Postmodernism: A Reaction to Rationalism
55:53 Subjectivity vs. Objectivity in Philosophy
01:01:30 Totalitarianism and the Postmodern Condition
01:07:48 Integrating for Future Growth
01:24:42 Technology in Philosophical Evolution