The Hubris of the Enlightenment | Dr Iain McGilchrist
July 16, 2024
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as posted by the channelIn this video, Iain McGilchrist explores the difference between attaining knowledge and understanding knowledge, explaining how lack of understanding can impact society.
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has many other prestigious scholarly associations. He is the author of The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, and his latest book is The Matter with Things.
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