The search for meaning in life | Rupert Sheldrake, Maria Balaska, James Tartaglia
66Rupert Sheldrake, Maria Balaska, James Tartaglia discuss whether life requires a meaning and where to find it.
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00:00 Introduction
01:44 Ruper Sheldrake | Life and the transcendent
05:01 Maria Balaska | First-person quest
06:37 James Tartaglia | Life is meaningless
Humans have always sought meaning beyond themselves in stories about the gods and the “beyond”. Yet today contemporary culture and thought has left many alone with only human, and contradictory, perspectives on the universe. In the absence of something beyond ourselves some would argue we have also lost meaning and purpose.
Do we need the transcendental to give our lives meaning? Can we conjure a 21st century form of the transcendental in the philosophical mysteries of life and the universe? Or should we ring out a Nietzschean cheer at the death of god and focus our attention on creating our own, human meanings that have lasting value and importance?
Distinguished scientist and author Rupert Sheldrake, philosopher of Wittgenstein Maria Balaska and Professor of Metaphysics James Tartaglia ask whether philosophy can really give meaning to our lives. Danielle Sands hosts.
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Rupert Sheldrake is an author and biologist whose research led to the theory of morphic resonance, expounded in the book A New Science of Life. Sheldrake's most recent book The Science Delusion was a bestseller.
Maria Balaska is a philosopher at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her book Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit: meaning and astonishment brings together philosophy and psychoanalysis on the significance and the challenges of experiences of astonishment.
James Tartaglia is a British philosopher at Keele University. James is the author of Philosophy in a Meaningless Life and Philosophy in a Technological World: Gods and Titans. After studying jazz saxophone at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, he went on to study philosophy at University College London, receiving his Phd in consciousness in 2001. His main interest is in understanding and enhancing awareness of the nature of philosophical inquiry.
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