Timothy Patitsas | City as Liturgy | Hope in Source podcast (2019)
Is the city a toaster (an object) or a cat (a living organism)? Hope in Source's Henry and Nadia are joined by Dr. Timothy Patitsis to talk about how physical and digital spaces, like liturgy, can be understood as "the work of the people". They discuss science as organized complexity, the meaning of knowledge, recursive societies, fractal hierarchies, and implications for governance.
Dr. Timothy Patitsas has been Assistant Professor of Orthodox Christian Ethics at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts since 2005. His dissertation, The King Returns to His City: An Interpretation of the Great Week and Bright Week Cycle of the Orthodox Church, combined interests in complexity theory, liturgy, urbanism, and the economic and political writings of Jane Jacobs.
0:00 - The Trisagion Prayers
1:43 - Prayer of Thanksgiving
2:40 - Prayer for Forgiveness
3:09 - The Nicene Creed
4:25 - Psalm 69
5:06 - Prayer for the End of the Day
5:55 - Benediction
0:00 - The Trisagion Prayers
1:43 - Prayer of Thanksgiving
2:40 - Prayer for Forgiveness
3:09 - The Nicene Creed
4:25 - Psalm 129
5:12 - Prayer for the End of the Day
6:01 - Benediction
**Religion, Myth, Science, Truth** | an evening with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Table of Contents:
0:00 INTRO: PETERSON'S JOURNEY
9:45 RELIGION: CROWD-CONTROL, NAIVE SCIENCE, OR NEITHER?
10:08 "They're straw man arguments"
11:45 Multiple motivational systems, different levels of thinking
13:32 Fundamental presuppositions
14:13 Dawkins vs. Christianity: like a "smart 13 year old boy"
14:44 SCIENTISTS MISREADING RELIGION
15:52 Different systems of thought, different purposes
16:00 More than one basic assumption is possible
17:13 ENTER: DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES
17:19 What's real is what's persistent across time
17:33 Dominance hierarchies and lobsters
17:58 We're evolutionarily adapted to hierarchies
18:14 HIERARCHIES, RELIGIOUS THINKING, AND SUBJECTIVITY
18:42 "Being" as not reducible to material reality
19:12 The road to nihilism and authoritarianism
19:57 DETERMINING THE TRUTH OF A THEORY
20:07 Newton or Darwin? Choose one. You can't have both.
20:20 Nitzche's "Truth serves life" is a Darwinian idea
20:38 No idea if our knoweldge will help us survive over deep time
20:50 Answer to: "But look what we've built with it"
21:20 Crossing Ebola and Smallpox: some science is clearly insane
22:30 Check your assumptions about reality
23:45 Darwinism: truth is what enables survival within chaos, period.
25:03 Dawkins is a Newtonian not a Darwinian
26:09 Reductionism leaves things out. This has consequences.
27:27 The pragmatic problem: truth for what?
28:09 DEEP DARWINISM & RELIGION
28:15 Religion as evolved knowledge about action
29:40 American Pragmatist philosophers: the true Darwinians
30:17 Godel, the stock market and reality
31:02 TRUTH AS ACTION
31:44 Truth from the bottom up: lobsters, wolves, humans
34:27 Ethics: evolved patterns in dominance hierarchies
39:23 Dogs, chimps and humans: hierarchy navigators
44:45 From dominance hierarchies to archetypes: ancient Egypt
52:36 The soul
55:50 Jung on Christianity, truth and speech
59:07 Truth versus the lie
1:00:52 THE INTELLECT
1:00:52 The totalitarian intellect
1:02:43 Have you made thinking your God?
1:03:38 Attention trumps thinking
1:04:11 EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS OF WESTERN RELIGION
1:04:33 Christ as a metahero
1:04:43 The deep roots of myth
1:07:00 Chaos monsters
1:08:55 Myth as behavioural truth
1:09:37 "Darwin trumps Newton"
1:10:02 "Dawkins is a rationalist...not a darwinian"
1:10:07 Darwinian time, Darwinian truth
1:13:57 Mesopotamian myth as successful behaviour blueprint
1:17:36 FROM NATURE TO HERO MYTHOLOGY
1:19:33 Religious stories model being as a field for action
1:21:13 Our religious task
1:21:47 Religion as hero mythology
1:22:30 "You...don't know that you know the story."
1:23:58 PIAGET AND PRE-RATIONAL MORALITY
1:25:16 We learn to act before we learn the rules
1:26:18 Moses the Judge: observer of emergent moral patterns
1:27:54 "Opiate of the masses" as naive industrial era thinking
1:28:43 METAPHORICAL THOUGHT
1:29:11 Hyperactive agency detection module: it goes deeper
1:31:00 The brain as archetype detection organ
1:32:08 Women are nature
1:33:48 Metaphor, myth and science
1:36:00 SCIENCE AND MORAL TRUTH
1:37:52 Are all scientists devoted to the truth?
1:39:44 How do we judge if science is ethical?
1:42:57 Evil as archetypically real
1:44:06 The reality of good and evil
1:45:09 Science and mythology: which is embedded in which?
1:48:17 EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND DEEP TIME
1:49:13 RELIGIOUS METAPHYSICS: OPTIONAL?
1:49:20 Is God an old man with a beard in the sky?
1:51:12 Hurricane Katrina, corruption and poverty
1:52:12 The significance of the bible
1:53:43 The genius of the sacrifice
1:55:50 INTERLUDE: TRIANGULATING MEANING
1:58:02 END OF RELIGION?
1:58:02 On new atheists' claims of a secular rational future
1:58:29 On new age spirituality
1:58:49 New atheist rationalist optimism so absurd it must be motivated
1:59:18 REDUCING RELIGION VS. EXPANDING EVOLUTION
1:59:40 "[Jungian alternative]...is terrifying [for people]"
1:59:57 "[Jung's work]...puts enlightenment thinkers to shame"
2:00:17 "Which ideas have you? ... We're like playthings of the gods"
2:01:09 JUNG: STUDYING INFORMATION, NOT MATTER
2:02:23 "If you study religion properly, it'll demolish your personality"
2:08:16 METAPHOR VS REALITY: NOT OBVIOUS
2:10:11 Ancients: phenomenologists, not scientists
2:12:24 Religion as spatial
2:13:24 HUMANS: EFFICIENT COMPLEXITY MANAGERS
2:13:48 Reality in terms of resolution
2:15:52 There's lots worse than death
2:16:46 On Becker's "The Denial of Death": smart but mistaken
2:19:40 Death's not the problem, it's complexity
2:21:06 THE MULTICULTURAL DIMENSION
2:27:35 FROM THEORY TO ACTION
2:28:40 Fixing what bugs you
2:29:30 Overcoming the lie
2:31:54 Peterson's experience with truth
2:34:45 The most powerful thing we can do
0:00 - The Trisagion Prayers
1:46 - Morning Prayer to the Holy Trinity
2:35 - The Nicene Creed
3:52 - Psalm 102
5:56 - Ephesians 4, verses 17-25
7:01 - Mark 12, verses 1-12
8:41 - Intercessory Prayers
11:43 - Prayer for the Beginning of the Day
12:32 - Benediction
13:14 - Fr. Stephen de Young's commentary on Ephesians 4, verses 17-25
00:00:00 - Opening Credits
00:02:47 - Sale of College Property
00:52:49 - Dinner with the Sub-Warden
01:33:33 - Belbury and St. Anne's-on-the-Hill
02:23:41 - The Liquidation of Anachronisms
03:08:28 - Elasticity
04:03:10 - Fog
04:49:37 - The Pendragon
05:37:59 - Moonlight at Belbury
06:25:48 - The Saracen's Head
07:19:52 - The Conquered City
08:18:45 - Battle Begun
09:00:41 - Wet and Windy Night
09:50:34 - They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven On Their Heads
10:44:05 - "Real Life Is Meeting"
11:43:24 - The Descent of the Gods
12:37:42 - Banquet at Belbury
13:17:00 - Venus at St. Anne's
0:00 - The Trisagion Prayers
1:46 - Morning Prayer to the Holy Trinity
2:35 - The Nicene Creed
3:54 - Psalm 5
5:16 - 1 Corinthians 10, verses 23-28
6:08 - Matthew 24, verses 34-44
7:20 - Intercessory Prayers
10:21 - Prayer for the Beginning of the Day
11:11 - Benediction
11:52 - Fr. Stephen de Young's commentary on 1 Corinthians 10, verses 23-28
A lecture on Oswald Spengler at the (now defunct) Astrological Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, from March of 2001. Part of a three day workshop directed by John David Ebert on "Mythologies of the Evolution of Consciousness." This discussion of Spengler was preceded by a long talk on Rudolf Steiner and followed by a lecture on Jean Gebser.
The Astrological Institute was the first school to ever achieve accreditation status for the study of astrology, but subsequently went under after its owner succumbed to cancer.