Rare Video Interview With Psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung
50 years ago, in 1961, the iconic Swiss psychologist, thinker and founder of Analytical Psychology Carl Gustav Jung died on the shore of Lake Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 86. In this rare video interview he shares his views about death as a fulfillment of life.
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Free will, determinism and future prediction
Is free will of humans an illusion? Are we determined? Is the future inevitable, unavoidable and predictible, if determinism is true?
US philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett´s smart reflexions on free will vs determinism.
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Philosopher BERTRAND RUSSELL’s Video Message to the Future
When british philosopher, mathematician, intellectual and thought leader Bertrand Russell was asked by the BBC in 1959 for a message to the future and to the people of the future, he answered among others with a final speech for (more) tolerance:
“LOVE is wise, hatred is foolish.”
His intellectual statement is directed against wishful thinking, ideological thinking and instead supporting a fact-based scientific method to find out the truth:
“Ask yourself only: What are the facts? And what is the truth that the facts reveal or unveil?… Look only and thoroughly at what are the facts…”
Rare video footage: Noam Chomsky vs Michel Foucault
A very rare public encounter of the american intellectual Noam Chomsky with the french intellectual Michel Foucault. Debated subjects are among others human nature, creativity and creative work.
Chomsky states: “A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for free creation, without the limiting effects of institutions… It is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society… in which the creative urge that is a part of human nature will in fact be able to realize itself.”
