Conversations with History - Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes philosophy professors Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly for a discussion of their book, All Things Shining. Drawing on their reading of Western classics, Dreyfus and Kelly analyze how different epochs offered unique answers to the question of what is sacred and what can provide meaning for human existence. The conversation explores the examples of Homer, Jesus, and Melville to highlight differing paradigms of culture practice. Dreyfus and Kelly then trace the transition to the secular age in which nihilism prevails. They conclude by identifying how a sense of meaning and of the sacred emerges in situations such as heroism, athletics, and craftsmanship.
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[@davidstentiford9359]

I get chills every time I hear those synths play.

[@kiljoy5223]

31:20 "Beware of receptivity", possibly the wisest Freudian slip ever

[@imverydeadd]

Fr

[@BlindEyeJones]

Heidegger's last statement of the coming of new gods has boggled and bamboozled Dreyfus' mind.

[@JeremyHelm]

where did you see this? (Hopefully I'll look into it myself, in the transcript - this is mostly why I'm commenting, btw). I'll timestamp it here if anything turns up :)

[@jasonreynolds3903]

Homeric worldview: gods as moods @ 20:47

[@dustinborum6750]

when derrida speaks of ghosts and l'venir, he's closest

[@dustinborum6750]

the mass of consciousness seems to be eating away at itself, giving way to this idea humans need to get back to something.. when indeed we are fated to consume this sacredness. embracing the inevitable undoing of ourselves. a positive nihilism. exceptance of your child's end, yours, earth's and ultimately, most importantly your configurations of reality

[@brunoborma]

I'd say there's already some sacred instance on this nihilistic living. But we just struggle to recognise it because we are inside of it. So, maybe, if we consider medieval people knew how to recognise sacredness in their lives, we can say they were not living the kind of sacredness we look for when we do all this philosophical survey. Maybe we, recognising the failure of all suppreme values, seek for sacredness in a way it was never sought. So maybe we are trying to be more sacred than ever, or than it is possible to be, thence our feeling of not finding it or having lost it forever. Isn't it also a good way to describe the way westeners seek daily ordinary satisfaction ? Maybe rationallity makes us seek things as they were really achievable, in an ideal sense, and prevents us from seeing things as satisfatory as they already are. So what is already sacred in our lives ?

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