The Human Situation 9: Problem of Human Nature
Aldous Huxley
Jonathan
May 12, 202628 September 1959UC Santa Barbara, CA
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The lecture traces changing ideas of human nature from Homer to Plato and beyond, arguing that experiences once explained as divine or demonic possession are now understood through the unconscious and psychophysiology. It compares Greek, Hebrew, Buddhist, and modern views of the self, soul, and mind-body relation, ending with the possibility of a deeper pure self or Atman.
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