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This group is for thinking people who want to hear about and discuss philosophical ideas that will make a difference to their lives. Everyone is welcome, interested inquirers, avid readers, outliers, undergraduates and professors of philosophy alike.
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Workshop # 17, The Uncanny, Series 10, (S8,11)
This event begins at 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.You will need to view the relevant podcast below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion.
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Join this group at meetup.com/philosophy-of-value-workshopsThe workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.
THIS WEEK: Freud’s work ‘The Uncanny’, and Bertrand Russell’s ‘Logic and Mysticism’, indicate that ‘mysteriousness’ and ‘the uncanny’ need not be forms of obfuscation, but ways of understanding. Heidegger, for example, presents ‘the uncanny’ as the unfamiliar, revealed in anxiety. Following these ideas, can we continue to examine how these qualities don’t obfuscate, but reveal the character of something that is immediately familiar, yet obscure. That is, our own reflective consciousness? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 1, Scn. iv.
