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The idea that dualism was demolished by Newton, whose theories (just-so stories) forced us to forget the "body substance" and left us with only the "mind substa
by slibhb 6y ago
The idea that dualism was demolished by Newton, whose theories (just-so stories) forced us to forget the "body substance" and left us with only the "mind substance," is very interesting. We tend to think of Newton as the exact opposite: someone who made a clockwork universe intelligible.
This perspective makes idealism seem inevitable. I wonder what Chomsky has to say about Kant.
- tikwidd 6y agoReminds me of the John Maynard Keynes quote, "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians". Chomsky's ideas about of innate linguistic systems in the mind seems to jibe well with Kant [1]. Chomsky has explicitly connected his work with the Cambridge Platonists/British Neo-platonists. [1] https://askaphilosopher.org/2011/08/15/chomsky-and-plato-compared/ https://askaphilosopher.org/2011/08/15/chomsky-and-plato-com...
- AndrewKemendo 6y agoThe great thing about Chomsky is that there's almost always a video or writing from him about some subject of importance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pndR7wrF-bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pndR7wrF-bo