Excellent channel here. I definitely have a proclivity towards a “post-positivistic“ view of reality and the limits of our ability to understand the human mind. I have always found mainstream psychology to be unsatisfactory and even naive in some ways. I’m a big Nietzche fan and he’s certainly influenced me in these views.
Well, thanks for hearing that. I often feel that we teachers don't really do our work justice if we never acknowledge the limitations of what we're offering to our students. And of course, that would also involve acknowledging the various limitations of the larger social paradigm within which academe is situated. At the same time, I feel like it's incumbent upon us to offer our students inroads toward transcending those limitations -- especially so that they don't become too hardened and concretized within the larger arc of their lives. Fortunately schools of psychology like Humanistic Psychology are already pretty interested in doing that. Anyhow... thanks for taking the time to watch & comment. Eric D.
Excellent channel here. I definitely have a proclivity towards a “post-positivistic“ view of reality and the limits of our ability to understand the human mind. I have always found mainstream psychology to be unsatisfactory and even naive in some ways. I’m a big Nietzche fan and he’s certainly influenced me in these views.
Fabulous. Inspiring and am enjoying the subtle critique of contemporary education too.
Well, thanks for hearing that. I often feel that we teachers don't really do our work justice if we never acknowledge the limitations of what we're offering to our students. And of course, that would also involve acknowledging the various limitations of the larger social paradigm within which academe is situated. At the same time, I feel like it's incumbent upon us to offer our students inroads toward transcending those limitations -- especially so that they don't become too hardened and concretized within the larger arc of their lives. Fortunately schools of psychology like Humanistic Psychology are already pretty interested in doing that. Anyhow... thanks for taking the time to watch & comment. Eric D.