Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…to think of this of this side of man, which I mean the whole psychophysical organism. There's a very striking phrase in Spinoza where that very great philosopher says, make the body, I would now say the psychophysical organism, make the body capable of…
…to think of this of this side of man, which I mean the whole psychophysical organism. There's a very striking phrase in Spinoza where that very great philosopher says, make the body, I would now say the psychophysical organism, make the body capable of…
…for developing the mind-body, for teaching the body, or we should better state the mind-body, to become capable of many things, as Spinoza put it. We have to go on to a very important point which is the problem of actualizing benevolence, actualizing love…
…here? What can be done to... train the mind-body on its own level of immediate experience. There is a very remarkable phrase in Spinoza where he says, teach the body to become capable of many things. In this way, you will help yourself to perfect the…
…amphibian organism which we possess. And yet this is, I think, of the greatest importance. There's a very remarkable phrase which Spinoza uses apropos of this. It seems to be all the more remarkable when one thinks of the extraordinary abstractness of…
…spheres, abolished the necessity of a very elaborate and beautiful coordination so that it's all the more necessary that we should do what Spinoza advises, to train the body to do many things. Let us consider a few of the many things which can be done…
…organism which we possess. And yet this is, I think, of the greatest importance. There's a very remarkable phrase which Spinoza uses apropos of this. It seems all the more remarkable when one thinks of the extraordinary abstractness of Spinoza's writings.…
…spheres, abolished the necessity of a very elaborate and beautiful coordination so that it's all the more necessary that we should do what Spinoza advises, to train the body to do many things. Well, let us consider a few of the many things which can be…
…efficiency and thereby to permit the realization of greater numbers of desirable potentialities. One finds, for example, a striking phrase in Spinoza where he says, teach the body many things, for in this way you will perfect the intellect, perfect the mind,…