WHO ARE WE?
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David's Worldview | EP 1
Matt's Worldview | EP 2
Good & Evil | EP 3
Mortality | EP 4
Empathy | EP 6
Status & Power | EP 7
What's Wrong With My Theory? | EP 8
Social Justice | EP 10
Cursing About Debt | EP 11
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Welcome to The Global Island, where East meets West in exploring truth and meaning. Join us, a duo merging Western philosophy, psychology, and rational discourse with Eastern wisdom and holistic thought. Inspired by late & contemporary thinkers, we attempt to connect science, spirituality, and the art of a meaningful life. Tune in for deep conversations that transcend cultural boundaries and reveal universal truths.
Today we explore Dave's worldview, the life experiences and the thinkers that have formed his present understanding of the world. In the domains of science, religion and philosophy. The notion that Dave stresses in this episode is how ever-evolving our worldview really are.
Today we explore Matt's worldview. Matt lays out his social and emotional development, and his history of dealing with mental health struggles, addiction, and broken relationships. But the beautiful common line through it is curiosity and a deep desire to make sense of the world. Matt has landed on Eastern philosophy and we are just getting started to understand all that he believes.
How do we define Good & Evil? Can we? We all have a subjective stance on it, so then how do we collectively find agreement? Non-sectarian or religiously dogmatic? We end the episode by discussing the psychology of Good & Evil.
What can we learn from moral psychology? Are the classical philosophers right? What about modern science: can it shed light on moralism? Where does Eastern & Western thought collide?
What is empathy? Global connectivity, high school ignorance, and the importance of the method? We dive into the temptation of self righteousness, being a speaker instead of a doer, and why we should aim up! Jordan Peterson and reeducation??? What's the neuroscience of gender incongruence? Why does biological literacy matter? We are ALL human = More EMPATHY!!!
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Does Eric Weinstein have an opinion about anything? What is Hegel's Dialectic? Good theory vs. bad theory? Let's discuss falsification, Max Weber, and why is there more bullshit than truth in the world? We end this episode by discussing why we need "Value-Free Research".
Today, we get serious and go deep into "Social Justice." Separating ideology from scientific rigor. We attempt to define our terms, share where we are ignorant, and seek to find a synthesis that is human focused.
The "F-word?"... European Nude Beaches... What's cultural Hegemony? Chat GPT made an appearance, and we fired Matt! Dave Ramsey + David Graeber = DEBT!! Canceling all debt in the Old Testament = Jubilee.