[FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

[Doug]

“We later civilizations, we too know we are vulnerable.” Valery abut 1900

I’ve been reading Toynbee, clear, fun to read, , helful on the decline and response of civilizations. He chunks civilizations in a not quite accurate but very suggestive ways.

If Sorokin is right, we are in for a good time as we move fom a materialist to a more spiritualpychlogical age. Digitalization dematerializes mind.





> On Oct 31, 2021, at 7:32 AM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
> 
> If there would be a list of writers, thinkers and scientists who are not getting the public recognition they deserve, who would you put on top of that list? Ernest Becker? Pitirim Sorokin? Paul Valery?
> 
> “My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!” 
> ~ Paul Valéry
> 
> "Becker came to believe that individual character is essentially formed around the process of denying one's own mortality, that this denial is a necessary component of functioning in the world, and that this character-armor masks and obscures genuine self-knowledge. Much of the evil in the world, he believed, was a consequence of this need to deny death"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Becker
> 
> -J.
> 
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