[FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers

[Jochen Fromm]

Sorokin is an interesting person. He was the very first sociology professor at Harvard University in the 1930s - a bit like William James for psychology. I have borrowed his main work "Social and Cultural Dynamics" yesterday from the university library, together with "Political Order in Changing Societies" from Samuel Huntington - the book that Francis Fukuyama cites as his inspiration.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: Doug <doug at dougcarmichael.com> Date: 10/31/21  16:20  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unrecognized Thinkers “We later civilizations, we too know we are vulnerable.” Valery abut 1900I’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..-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - .FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listservZoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6  bit.ly/virtualfriamun/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.comFRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021  http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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