Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK as we examine how Schopenhauer’s ideas are relevant (or not) in today’s society and our own lives. Some questions to prompt your curiosity. Picture early Nineteenth century Europe. Waterloo had been fought. The Revolution was dead. Millions had perished. Millions of acres neglected. As Durant so eloquently puts it,…
Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK as we reflect on Herbert Spencer's ideas are relevant (or not) in today's society and our own lives. Some questions to prompt your curiosity. In the mid-1800s, as England was ushering in the industrial era, Herbert Spencer gained prominence for his intellectual and scientific prowess. A man with varied interests…
Join London ii hosts Bryan Kam and Flick Hardingham as we continue our journey through Will Durant's 'The Story of Philosophy', discussing Nietzsche’s origins of morality and what it means for us today. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) has two famous catchphrases. God is dead. This exposes religion as a construct, created by the human…
Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham, and Irene JK as we reflect on Bertrand Russell's ideas are relevant (or not) in today's society and our own lives. Some questions to prompt your curiosity. Nobel-winning English mathematician, logician, philosopher, and humanist Bertrand Russell, was one of the most influential thinkers of his time. His views on mathematics and…
Join London ii hosts Flick Hardingham and Irene JK in an exploration of the truth, inspired by philosopher William James. William James (1842-1910) was the father of American psychology as a formal discipline, a well known public philosopher and one of the founders of pragmatism. And through his pragmatic lens, he offers us an intriguing interpretation of truth.…
I am Tom Morgan— For the last few years I've been exploring the idea of a phase shift in consciousness. Trends in storytelling, culture, healing and business seem to confirm this shift. I have argued that the increasing prevalence of Hero's Journey narratives in popular culture reflect an unconscious desire for an evolution in consciosness.…
Who are we to talk about Teilhard de Chardin’s ambitious infusion of philosophical theology and science? We believe it takes a team of enthusiasts to honestly attend to Teilhard de Chardin. Thus, we are embracing a Philosopher (PhD Researcher) named Christophe Porot, Twitter @PorotChristophe; a Neuropsychologist (PhD, Post Doc Researcher) named Donald Frederick, Twitter @neurofoo;…
This Salon is for aesthetes, dreamers, and visionaries; for those who like to ask big questions and who are curious to dive deeper. We will talk about aesthetics (specifically what beauty is, and pathways of knowing it), cosmology (including chaos theory), quantum mechanics, and consciousness - the nature of mind itself. These inter-related topics will…
Dr. Gena Gorlin, a clinical psychologist and founder coach, teams up with Dr. Jason Rheins, a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy, to put Stoicism under the microscope: does it live…
Join Dr. Jason Rheins, a scholar of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, for a salon on who Socrates (469-399 BCE) was, and what he can mean for us today. Socrates. The Oracle at Delphi proclaimed him the wisest of the Greeks, yet he supposedly claimed to know nothing but his own ignorance. He was poor…
