Ricoeurs Phenonenology eschews Aristotleian and Kantian rationalism preferring the  essence -seeking descriptions that relate to concrete experience. He may therefore be committed to a form of dualism that is dialectical

The legend of Icarus is a transcendental analogy with a message for humanity relating to the inherent hubris of man. Knowing oneself involves knowing ones limitations and  valuing ones mortality. Deus Absconditis , the "new men" and their ...

The History of World Mythology and Europes legacy of Ancient Greece, The Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Pelagius and the Free Will versus Original Sin. Loss of belief in the clergy, brutal burnings at the stake and the legacy of Romanticism...

Europe and the Levant.  Aristotle influential in both but Arabic commentaries narrowed the focus of Aristotles Metaphysical and Political/Ethical writings. The rise of Islam on the basis of  the revelations and visions of one illitera...

The Celtic Culture of slaves, Druids, Knights and romantic tales of the afterlife.Gnostic Immantism and "The Kingdom of God is not coming it is here, now and within you" Aristotles Influence counteracting supernaturalism. The cross of light and...

Alexander the Great installed a new European spirit in regions of the World beyond. He used  Aristotelian Golden Mean principles and oracular proclamations to do this. Relationship between religious and Literary Texts. Freudian analysis of...

The tumultous upheavals of the Persian Period: internationalisation, interracialisation. Cyrus the King of Kings and the  period of restoration. Eros is not a divinity but a means for man to live in friendly relations in a polis

Oriental religion versus Ancient Greek Philosophy. The age of the new hero: Socrates, Plato and Aristote and the life of contremplation. The road of Zoraster and the corruption of the world. The Will and its decisions.

The Displacement of the goddess tradition by the warrior gods and the elevation of the patriarchal society. The mission of Philosophy to stay neutral and transcend all forms of dialectical opposites through firstly hylomorphic theory and second...

The Law of Moses and its factual legitimacy. Platos idea of Absolute transcendence versus Aristotles idea of immanent transcendence. Christian lamentation "Dust thou art and unto dust thou shallt return"

The deep song of Mythology versus the deep song of Philosophy that perhaps began with the balanced temperate Ancient Greek Mythological spirit of sythesis rather than opposition. Psychoanalyst Otto Rank and the likeness of mythological thought ...

Oriental v Occidental Mythology--The differing Garden plots. The role of Philosophy in the universalising of particular perspectives

Concluding reflections, The Kantian Imperative and answer to the question "What can we Hope For?" The mythological appeal of Art and the Renaissance. Michelangelo and putting truth to work.

The problems of self-actualisation when transcendental supports are removed

The  contrast between mythological, Philosophical and Scientific forms of understanding the realm of the sacred.

Spinoza, the Philosopher of the Infinite Buddhism and the noble path, The reconciliation of opposites in one substance

Dream images versus film images. Is the hero theme an archetype? Instrumentalities and ends in thmselves

Myth as "transparence to transcendence".  James Joyce, Thomas Mann and the links between Art and Mythology. Psychoanalysis as  interpreter of the symbols of mythology.

Heideggers Phenomenological description of instrumentalities and the place of machines in such an environment. Wittgenstein on the impossibility of a machine being alive and conscious

The world in certain of its aspects resembles the workings of a computer: input-process-output. Computer Programmers and the "Zombie-experience" (Weizenbaum). The new men and techné: the reduction of experience and understanding to something th...

Chat GPT does not qualify for the characterisation "artificial intelligence" because the word intelligence denotes a human power and the danger is that using such  terminology will result in equating these forms of intelligence with each o...

Chat GPT claims that it is not capable of human understanding but that it is capable of a type of learning. The Zombie new men, Weizenbaum claims, became like the machines they were programming.

Episode 2. Mythological narrative is no longer important in our contemporary modern societies, sharing the fate of Religion in our technologically oriented world in which film television and artificially intelligent computers  play increas...

Merleau-Ponty and the lived body. Sexuality is a general atmosphere of our life. Hacker and the categorical framework of Hylomorphism

Group Psychology and the Ego.  The Death Instinct Eros, Thanatos and Ananke. The Cogito and reflection. Hylomorphic conditionality