The Meditating Philosopher | John Vervaeke | Reverse Engineering Plato & A Cognitive Scientist at Harvard Divinity School (4K) @TheMeditatingPhilosopher | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Dr. John Vervaeke gave a talk hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions conference, Platonism as Living Tradition, May 15-18, 2024. It was a blast, and I was fortunate enough to attend it and lucky enough to be allowed to unofficially record selected talks. Opening imagery and title slides are mine.

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00:00 Introduction
00:30 Cognitive Science & Spiritual/Psychological Meaning
05:00 4E Cognitive Science - Enactive, Embodied, Embedded, Extended
09:00 Propositional Tyranny of Modernism & J. J. Gibson
15:30 4Ps of Knowing - Propositional, Procedural, Perspectival, & Participatory Knowing
20:30 Imagination
23:00 Ritual, Dialectic, & DiaLogos
28:00 Roles of Dialectic into Dialogos Practice
36:00 Q & A
36:15 What is the Telos of this project?
40:15 What is the role of autobiography and personal wisdom?
43:00 How is this practice actually Platonic?
49:00 What do we mean by Platonism?
52:20 How does noetic understanding relate to this?
54:20 How is ritual different than discourse
57:30 Can this practice answer big questions
58:00 Is this like Proclus' 4 steps of dialectic - division, definition, demonstration, analysis?

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