1996-10-28 NSPRS 039 - Our Cultural War Against Our Spiritual Roots

[@Joe-kn3wt]

In just under an hour, this lecture captured the nature of the two-millennia-old cultural split that 'constructed' our fragile state of affairs devoid of 'spiritual' sensitivities. It could as well be titled, "... How we arrived Here...". Thank you so much for the upload.

[@fryingwiththeantidote2486]

Holy shit this is one of the best!

[@theirishmexican7680]

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses

[@cliffhorton9136]

As I have developed a passion for Erasmus along with Pierre I wanted to comment as Erasmus to me is a European Gandhi who challenged the orthodoxy with great bravery. Pierre reads a quote @20min from Yates: Giordano Bruno pronouncing her views on Erasmus "he has absolutely no interest in dialectics, metaphysics, or natural philosophy, he pours his amusing scorn in the Praise of Folly on schoolmen and their barbarous Latin". In Praise of Folly was written whilst Erasmus enjoyed Thomas More’s hospitality, he gives him the grand title of Democritus junior. Judge Folly (a pun on More’s name) criticises every value that the then church held sacred, concluding, Folly makes the following analogy "Father Plato defines philosophy to be the meditation of death, because the one performs the same office with other, namely, withdraws the mind from all visible and corporeal objects" etc, etc, etc. Yates; obviously never got to the end of the book. Likewise, his little-known book Ciceronianus the character; Nosoponus a would-be sophist is cured of his anal devotion to Cicero with the aid of Socratic reasoning. Interestingly again Erasmus names Thomas More to be an Isocratic; his command of to flatter and at the same time poke ironic fun at the receiver’s ignorance is sublimely beautiful. Our Saintly Erasmus spent is all life with considerable risks criticising religious dogma, the Scholastics and their Aristotelian theology in the most beautiful of ways. He called it the study of bonae litterae, not just beauty here or beauty there, but beauty everywhere until he sees that great ocean of beauty. Five hundred years ago Erasmus understood Plato to be a dharma is that not breath taking?

[@sunnybunny6278]

The masses don't even get the Trivium (in the UK anyway)though. Sadly that is kept hidden inside the private schools for those who can pay for the privilege. Introducing the Quadrivium would mean the Trivium would have to be let out the bag & I can't see the elite giving up their educational advantages. At my schools we weren't even taught about marking text for understanding let alone getting the skills of logical thinking & rhetorical confidence.

[@resaterel678]

In 3 years only 1000 views. Sunny Bunny, from which masses are you talking about? Philosophy never been popular amongst the masses. The masses are so busy with Tik Tok. Welcome to the real world.

[@sunnybunny6278]

@@resaterel678 Ah but for something to be popular it has to be known about in the first place. My comment was about it being kept for the minority. P.S The masses = the 99%.

[@lukecash3500]

​@@resaterel678 Don't worry I'll make up for that as I return to this over the years. This and his other lectures.

[@ripulinaama8500]

Jaskalle terveisiä

[@logos1.618]

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