RSA Replay: The Path to Living Well
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Professor of Chinese history and philosophy Michael Puett has taken Harvard by storm in recent years, delivering its most popular undergraduate course, and attracting thousands of students to his lectures on the ancient teachings of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Xunzi.
At the RSA, he invites us to re-examine the impact of Western philosophy on our lives and some of our deepest held assumptions, and to "unlearn" many ideas that inform modern society. The ancient Chinese philosophers show that the key to living well is not by "finding" ourselves and slavishly following a grand plan, as so much of Western thought would have us believe, but rather through a path of self-cultivation and engagement with the world. Believing in a "true self" only restricts what we can become - and tiny changes, from how we think about careers to how we talk with our family, can have powerful impact on our lives and relationships.
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I was positively impressed by this talk, thanks for this continuous sharing, The RSA team ! :)
The discussion of mindfulness at 37:27 is spot on... it has become a distortion of the original, encouraging people to simply accept how things are and to make no effort to change for the better.
Absolutely enlightening talk. The questions at the end illuminated the serious modern dilemas that are facing the Western world. Since I'm reading my 13yo Granddaughter in a Southern US state, I've come to have questions about how to teach her about living in the real world verses being educated and being an honor student. You gave me plenty of food for thought. Thank you for letting bouncing my life around while you talked and then giving some rebound answers that make totally sense.
The presentation actually begins at frame 14:51:)
I'm 20 mins into the video. The first thing that comes to mind is mirror neurons. I imagine they play a role in us building up these "messy" patterns as we navigate through life. The more the patterns are repeated, the more likely they will become memorized. I wonder if mirror neuron information can be genetically passed on?
+Yino Wut I suspect it can be, but in most cases is not. For example, there are people that have gifts and memory learning like their fathers or at the same pattern levels, and also patterns for living like you said.
I myself have grown and lost my father, but I notice certain living patterns in me exactly like the ones he had mentally; information flux I just get and use to build wisdom and to better my life in several ways, and I can experience that some of these patterns are embedded in me by mirror neurons and in physiological schemes. I have been studying these scientific ideas and there is indeed validity to your concept and my experiences.
Well known reactions: A headache from over-analytic curation within a short time span. I've watched this session twice. Also, yes my grandfather is deceased and I never met him, but I know somewhat about his way of living.
We are metaorganism.
The messy personality view seems pretty obvious to me in light of what we know today. We can see in brain scans that different activities activities different parts of the brain (or draws them out as Peutt puts it). Take the trolley problem. A train is gonna run over 5 people unless you push a button sending it down a different track killing only one person. What do you do? Most people push the button and save 4 lives. But if you have to push a person onto the track to stop the train from hitting the five? Then you wouldn't do it. In both cases you chose whether or not to kill one to save five. In one case you act according to cold logic and kill, in the other you get emotional and can't bring yourself to do it. The different situations activate different part of your brain and your personality varies wildly as a result. So of course you don't have a "true self".
you ever heard of the a greek named socrates? or another guy called plato?
"We're all messy creatures with dangerous patterns" that get passed down from generation to generation. So true! That's one reason why I decided not to have children: they don't need my crappy DNA or broken behaviours (or messed up world for that matter.)