2500 Years of Philosophy in FOUR Minutes w/ Dr. John Vervaeke

Dr. John Vervaeke summarizes the stances of some of the world's greatest philosophers including Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Platinus, Kant, Descartes, Jung, Christ, Buddha & more.

Dr. John Vervaeke is an associate professor at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses on thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and cognitive development. He also frequently teaches a course on neuroscientific cognitive scientific theories of consciousness. In addition to his work in cognitive science, Vervaeke is also interested in bridging the gap between spirituality and science. He has created several video series on these topics, including Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and To Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Round Two.

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• Socrates: "The unexamined life is not worth living."
• Plato: "You are always finite transcendence. You can transcend, but you never transcend your finitude. If you pay attention to just your finitude, you become a servant. If you pay attention to just your Transcendence, you become a tyrant."
• Aristotle: "Cultivate your character more than anything else you do."
• Buddha: After he experienced enlightenment, he was walking down the road and was greeted by men. They said, "Are you a God?" and he said, "No." "Are you a Divine messenger?" "No." "Are you a prophet?" "No." "Well, are you just then a man?" "No." "What are you then?" "I am awake."
• Christ: "Try to love other people agapically. If you agapically love people, you're helping them to be born again."
• Augustine: "Love God and then do whatever you want.But first, love God."
• Plotinus: "Learn how to become one with Ultimate Reality."
• Aquinas: "Your reason and your spirituality don't have to be separate, they actually are interwoven."
• Descartes: "Try to get your thinking to be as clear, to be made up of clear and distinct ideas as you possibly can."
• Kant: "Never treat people as means only, but as ends in themselves. People are never to be understood, including yourself, as purely instrumental in nature."
• Hegel: "Realize that distributed cognition, collective intelligence has a life of its own and a history of its own, and it is unfolding in a way that requires careful study and understanding."
• Heidegger: "Your being is the kind of being that can have its being called into question. That's what makes you fundamentally what you are."
• Corbin: "The imaginal is absolutely central to a wise and flourishing life."
• Jung: "The vertical relationship between the conscious and the unconscious, is as important as the horizontal relationship between consciousness and the world."

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