One of the things I got confused by in listening to this podcast was in the ‘two halves separated by descartes’. He said it I felt in a very off-hand way without even briefly reminding us what those two halves were. Is there a way I could get just a brief description of that?
Is it the separation between body and mind?
PS. I think you missed a couple words here:
The Romantics become anti-empiricists; the empiricists view the mind as a blank state that's impressed on by experience, the world is an empty canvas on which imagination expresses itself.
I believe that the part beginning with “the world is an empty canvas...” should start with ”...while the Romantics think that...”
I believe yes, tho I think Vervaeke upgrades it to something a bit more extreme: a separation between mind and reality. (Your only experience of reality, including the other people in it, is mediated by your body.)
One of the things I got confused by in listening to this podcast was in the ‘two halves separated by descartes’. He said it I felt in a very off-hand way without even briefly reminding us what those two halves were. Is there a way I could get just a brief description of that?
Is it the separation between body and mind?
PS. I think you missed a couple words here:
The Romantics become anti-empiricists; the empiricists view the mind as a blank state that's impressed on by experience, the world is an empty canvas on which imagination expresses itself.I believe that the part beginning with “the world is an empty canvas...” should start with ”...while the Romantics think that...”
I believe yes, tho I think Vervaeke upgrades it to something a bit more extreme: a separation between mind and reality. (Your only experience of reality, including the other people in it, is mediated by your body.)
Fixed.