Philosophical Speculations

Don't forget Edmund Husserl, the founder of the 20th-century phenomenology movement. His badge of honor as an idealist is that some of his own followers turned away from him due to his 'turn' to idealism. In response, however, he insisted that his philosophy was being misunderstood.

Stunning indeed. The more I think about, the more stunning it gets. Being the first person to explicitly 'decode' the metaphysics of a thinker of Jung's magnitude is a real feat to behold. Especially at a time when psychology does appear to be taking its rightful place as "queen of the science...

I’m surprised as Whitehead seems to me to have roots in idealism - although it’s not idealism it’s certainly anti-materialism, and anti-cartesian. Whereas Russell seems to me to be a materialist, with the positivists that followed being extreme materialists. I guess you could say that Russell is a ...

I'm not sure the term 'mainstream' works in describing 20th-century philosophy of mind. There are several competing streams and there have been for a long time. I don't see Russell as a turning point in philosophy; that would describe Whitehead more fittingly. Whitehead is hard to grasp but he has m...

It just dawned on me that BK's new book may be a huge deal, if it gets any sort of widespread attention. Jung is widely recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. And, to the best of my knowledge, no one else has systematically explored his metaphysical position. I'd sa...

One thing that seems relevant is that the events of the Red Book take place in imaginal space. There's a set of insights that seem to be shared by idealists of various stripes, and this is among them, that psyche and world are equally imaginal and have fluid boundaries. I am SO glad that Bernardo ha...

The mainstream cannot handle the truth, being too invested in their way. But more people will awaken, we hope. I remember thinking 50 years ago that if cannabis were legal, the world would change because the plant would change people. That may actually be true, but I can't really say until it happens.

I think that before we get into contingency vs necessity, we have to ask about finitude and the infinite. We are finite creatures and our creative source is, in contrast, infinite. Is M@L infinite? I would guess Bernardo would say yes. As for necessity, it has a formal and formative nature only, in ...