I really enjoyed Professor Gellner speak. Very insightful and like a breath of fresh air.

Im am glad I was never examined by professor Gellner 😅

Ten thumbs up for this summary.

I dream of being this articulated

One of the more interesting aspect of modern philosophy Is the intertwining beetwen theory of knowledge, history and sociology (think for example of Foucault or Kuhn). I didn't know Gellner First to seeing this video and, i Hope, from now to find out more about him

This discussion was in 1978 now its 2023 and everything they say is still true about knowledge but with the rise of the internet things are now a hundred times even more unstable. Knowledge is now so fragmented as is society its like living in a constant blur.

Funny how few years later, on the same program, Bryan Magee will have quite different opinion about the philosophy of the Middle Ages. :)

Bryan is a master philosopher

Magee certainly possessed many fine suits, shirts and ties!

LOVE IT

Gellner gives a good sociological overview of several movements, having a synthetic style: I like the way he refutes that language philosophy has an underlying influence in modern thought, opposing Wittgenstein to Chomsky. He also seems to put Marxism back in its box, saying it failed due to Messianism of expectation.

Fabulous ❤

Very well said.

like sanskrit pramāṇa is in the instrumental case: the means by which valid knowledge is discovered

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5:40 Dependence of economic growth on cognitive growth (since abandoning authority)

18:30 Disenchantment of the world as a byproduct of the new theory of knowledge

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I think Geller correctly observes "the right question is to look at the preconditions of the emergence of the modern world" and goes on to discuss how Satre and others' "truths" are only so post the Cartesian era.

However I wonder if he would have noticed how it was likely the access to abundantly cheap fossil fuels that allowed the growth of human dominion over nature that is unsustainable.

Does this mean an end to this  "Western" tradition of philosophy? The lack of understanding of natural limits probably is where it comes up short. I believe some linkage or reemergence of indigeous thinking as humanity begins its long return to real sustainable ways of living (giving up the green growth myth) will offer a path forward

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