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.
…all. It's a method for changing 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…
…nominalists. Realists were not what we call realists today at all. Quite different. The realists were those in the tradition of Plato who felt that every individual example of a species, say every man, every bird every flower, was a special case of…
…Well when a western person hears you say that the idea of a chair exists before any chair is made, this sounds like Plato this sounds like saying there is a spiritual world and there is a separate material world. Now is that what you mean? What…
…Caesar existed not really certainly there is no evidence that jesus existed that Socrates existed there is a great deal of doubt about Plato. Probably the emperor Ashoka was a myth, and so on. You know you can go on in that indefinitely, finding out that…
…it? Two: are we going to make it? Three: where are we going to put it? And four who's going to clean up? Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Descartes are all discussing these four questions. Now you see, but if you begin at the beginning who started it? That's…
…all. It's a method for changing 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…
…of work because when you read the new testament in Greek, It's in very bad Greek. As compared with the Greek of Plato, It's a backwoods document, slangy, but it's very easy Greek Plato's Greek is much more subtle and difficult to understand, but the…
…ego aligned with the id. And Freud's Metaphors and Freud's Construction of the sort of psychic anatomy of mankind is really derived from Plato with the image of the soul riding the animal horse. Now all this is a total failure because there is a secret…
…me that he had not discovered Hindu Culture until he was 45 years old. He was brought up like an englishman on Xenophon, Plato, Sophocles, Livy, Ovid and Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Etc etc all down the line and it was so funny because he was much older…