I'm curious as to what BK's Decoding Jung's Metaphysics might make of this ... I'm thinking there would be a disconnect.
Re: Decoding Synchronicity: Jung & Wolfgang Pauli
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:22 pm
by Martin_
In which way are you thinking there would be a disconnect?
Personally, I still haven't figured out whether Jung was an Idealist or a Dual Aspect Monist. The 'tube above sides with the Dual Aspect camp, as does numerous academic articles, but there are also those who tag him as an Idealist.
An additional complication is that his metaphysical position seems to have changed over his course of his life.
Edit: If Bernardo is putting him in the Idealist camp, I'd be very interested to learn his reasons for that.
Re: Decoding Synchronicity: Jung & Wolfgang Pauli
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:41 pm
by Soul_of_Shu
Martin_ wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:22 pmIn which way are you thinking there would be a disconnect?
Personally, I still haven't figured out whether Jung was an Idealist or a Dual Aspect Monist. The 'tube above sides with the Dual Aspect camp, as does numerous academic articles, but there are also those who tag him as an Idealist.
An additional complication is that his metaphysical position seems to have changed over his course of his life.
Edit: If Bernardo is putting him in the Idealist camp, I'd be very interested to learn his reasons for that.
Yes, the point about the disconnect is based on BK interpreting Jung's metaphysics in terms of idealism, and not some version of dual-aspect monism that views psyche and matter as being reducible to the anima mundi ~ a case I expect he'll make in his upcoming book.
Re: Decoding Synchronicity: Jung & Wolfgang Pauli
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:42 pm
by Ben Iscatus
[Yes, the point about the disconnect is based on BK interpreting Jung's metaphysics in terms of idealism, and not some version of dual-aspect monism that views psyche and matter as being reducible to the anima mundi ~ a case I expect he'll make in his upcoming book.
Clever as the young man is, I doubt he's had the time to read Jung's entire corpus of works 2 or 3 times...
Re: Decoding Synchronicity: Jung & Wolfgang Pauli
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:37 pm
by AshvinP
Martin_ wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:22 pm
In which way are you thinking there would be a disconnect?
Personally, I still haven't figured out whether Jung was an Idealist or a Dual Aspect Monist. The 'tube above sides with the Dual Aspect camp, as does numerous academic articles, but there are also those who tag him as an Idealist.
An additional complication is that his metaphysical position seems to have changed over his course of his life.
Edit: If Bernardo is putting him in the Idealist camp, I'd be very interested to learn his reasons for that.
It seems to me that 'dual aspect monism' which embraces the reality of mind, as Jung certainly did, is simply a subset of idealism. We could also label Schopenhauer a dual aspect monist since he claims the world is comprised of will and representations of will, both of which can be experienced directly, but he is also clearly an idealist thinker.