c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…Quite a different scene, but a very liberating one if you can learn to enjoy it. Now a man, a British Obstetrician like Bradley Dick reed, has taught women how to have children without resisting it so that they don't talk about the pangs of childbirth…
…only, and it looks deceptively like what we call in western philosophy subjective idealism, as taught, say by Berkeley or Bradley, that in other words the only reality is your mind, as this is propounded in western philosophy. Everything that exists…
…they argue as to which one of them is the one that's really there. So the point of view of, say Berkeley or Bradley in the western tradition of subjective certain independent existence but as a mind, and that all particular minds are as it were, minds…
…went in exactly the opposite direction. They are generally go under the name of idealist, I mean we'd say Berkeley to Hegel, Bradley, and to some extent the Buddhists tend to be saying that space is the basic reality. But they also equate space with…
…by yours faithfully god, the great subjective idealists in the tradition of western philosophy are, of course Berkeley, the bishop, and Bradley, a f Bradley. And it's in some ways difficult to make out exactly what they were saying when they said that…
…god, the great subjective idealists in the tradition of western philosophy are, of course Berkeley, the bishop, and Bradley, a f Bradley. And it's in some ways difficult to make out exactly what they were saying when they said that everything is in…
…say the world in the mind. Now the theory is incredibly plausible, as it has been stated by people like Berkeley and Bradley and the western idealists. But today it is about the most unfashionable philosophical theory in the academic world that you could…
…come to this point of view with very different assumptions than were held by people like Hegel or Berkeley or Bradley, the great idealists of the European Metaphysical tradition and probably rather more akin to similar trends in Buddhist Philosophy emerging…
…only, and it looks deceptively like what we call in western philosophy subjective idealism as taught say by Berkeley or Bradley, that in other words the only reality is your mind, as this is propounded in western philosophy everything that exists…
…they argue as to which one of them is the one that's really there. So the point of view of say Berkeley or Bradley in the western tradition of subjective idealism is not solipsistic, but it is that everybody has a certain independent existence but as a…