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.
…your state of consciousness. In other words it's not a system of ideas such as propounded say by Plato or by Kant or by Hegel. It's a dialectical method that is to say dialectic being in the sense of a Discord between a teacher and a student, the…
…simply that you can't look up the teachings of Buddhism in the same way that you could look up the teachings of Hegel, Kant, Spinoza, Jesus Christ, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle and so on. They don't exist they've never been written down. All that has been…
…is simply that you can't look up the teachings of Buddhism in the same way that you can look up the teachings of Hegel, Kant, Spinoza, Jesus Christ, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle and so on. They don't exist they've never been written down. All that has been…
…which 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…
…like Judaism or Christianity, then Buddhism is not a religion. If philosophy is something like the speculations of Kant or Hegel, then eastern thought is not philosophy. The nearest thing to eastern philosophy in the west is psychotherapy, because the…
…of science of the 19th century was what we might call a naturalistic monism. Such people as Freud and Huxley and Hegel Firmly believed that all the mental phenomena of human life could be explained in terms of neurology and biology. The philosophy…
…of the mind only we 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…
…your state of consciousness. In other words it's not a system of ideas such as propounded say by Plato or by Kant or by Hegel. It's a dialectical method that is to say dialectic being in the sense of a discourse between a teacher and a student, the…
…like Judaism or Christianity, then Buddhism is not a religion. If philosophy is something like the speculations of Kant or Hegel, or even modern philosophers such as Ayer and Reichenbach, then eastern thought is not philosophy. The nearest thing to eastern…