Michael and David continue their inquiry into the importance of Aesthetic Intelligence. The discussion covers Michael’s article Art and Imagination, focusing on the similarities and differences between the worldviews of Ayn Rand and William Blake. Subjects discussed include the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the identity of Kant’s “Noumenon,” the importance of Art and Aesthetics, The role of the Artist, the anatomy of perception, conception and imagination, the fraud of Materialism, the fraud of religion, reconstitution of western education, child education, the mysteries of Selfhood. This and more…
Program References
William Blake
Jacob Bohme
Nicholas Cusa
Ayn Rand
Objectivism
Nathaniel Branden
Scientism
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Moral Philosophy
Transcendental Idealism
British Hegelians
Idealism
British Idealism
Materialism
Platonic Forms
Pre-Established Harmony
Empathy
Mirror Neurons
Gabriel Marcel
Owen Barfield
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benedetto Croce
Martin Heidegger
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Suggested Reading
Art & Imagination
The Sick Rose
Fall of Albion
Light, Magic, Masonry
Mysticism (Truth or Falsity)
The Freedom of Man
The Romantic Manifesto
The Psychology of Self-Esteem
The Fountainhead
Sleepwalkers
Ghost in the Machine
Act of Creation
Art & Physics
War of Art
Disciples of the Mysterium
Related Programs
Ayn Rand Series
Heroism, Genius, Creativity
Materialism & Other Frauds
The Myth of Determinism
The Posthuman World
Talking Heidegger
Cards of Darkness 1
Cards of Darkness 2
The World in Your Head
Path of the Fool
Mysticism
Idealism
