On July 14 1930, an incredible platonic dialogue occured in Berlin between two great minds representing both cultures and fields of study which many have falsely presumed to be polar opposites of each other. On the one hand the scientist Albert Einstein, representing western civilization, had attained some of the greatest accomplishments in physics by revolutionizing humanity’s relationship to physical space time itself.
Thank you for unearthing and sharing this enchanting exchange, Matt, and especially for providing the transcript!
I am thrilled to learn I am in alignment with Einstein’s belief in an objective reality independent of human consciousness. I always thought it was anthropocentrically solipsistic to even pose the tree-falling-in-the-forest question.
Today, we see the catastrophic consequences of a world that has fallen into the postmodernist delusion about the relativity and malleability of “reality” while ignoring the scientific, objective reality, sometimes to fatal effect.
"When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty."
My take: Power used in service of the Eternal is how we know truth and Love used in service of the Eternal is how we feel beauty. What is goodness? The 4 Cardinal Virtues: Courage, Justice, Prudence and Modesty?
I'm on Chapter 11 of your Tagore series and enjoy it enormously. The ideas are familiar, but said in a poetical way.
Thank you for unearthing and sharing this enchanting exchange, Matt, and especially for providing the transcript!
I am thrilled to learn I am in alignment with Einstein’s belief in an objective reality independent of human consciousness. I always thought it was anthropocentrically solipsistic to even pose the tree-falling-in-the-forest question.
Today, we see the catastrophic consequences of a world that has fallen into the postmodernist delusion about the relativity and malleability of “reality” while ignoring the scientific, objective reality, sometimes to fatal effect.
"When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty."
My take: Power used in service of the Eternal is how we know truth and Love used in service of the Eternal is how we feel beauty. What is goodness? The 4 Cardinal Virtues: Courage, Justice, Prudence and Modesty?
I'm on Chapter 11 of your Tagore series and enjoy it enormously. The ideas are familiar, but said in a poetical way.