Oz Fritz has been doing a series of video lectures on the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. This morning I watched the above video (about 13 minutes) which references three different approaches to philosophy.
Oz mentions, "RAW was into Zen and this one has a Zen connection." Here is Oz' description of the video: "Discusses 3 orientations of philosophy or thought, the heights, the depth and the surface. These are represented by Platonism, Nietzsche & the Pre--Socratics, and the Cynics and Stoics. Symbolized by Platonic wings, Empedocles' sandal, and the philosophical staff blow. Connection with Zen. Empdeocles connection with magic and with Nietzsche. Vigorous attack on Platonism; the philosophical disease of Idealism which gets compared to manic depression."
For more, see Oz' blog. The video series is about Deleuze's book The Logic of Sense. The initial blog posting of the series is here.
Oz also mentions (comment for this blog post) that the "Sangha" portion of this blog on the right side of the page, listing recent postings from other blogs, is no longer listing his recent blog posts. I have no explanation for this, other than that Blogger's features seem to routinely malfunction for no apparent reason, and Google does not make it easy to report these hiccups. For example, I can no longer post my own blog posts in advance; without explanation, the feature has stopped working.
2 comments:
Thank-you for posting this, Tom, I really appreciate it!
Been watching these with great interest
OZ ha a great way of unpacking these dense topics
And when he explains the concepts you can see why a Bob-head would be interested in all this
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