Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites

Running Time: 02:00:45

Ralston College presents a lecture by Dr Iain McGilchrist followed by a discussion with Dr Stephen Blackwood and questions from the audience. In his lecture Dr McGilchrist deals with certain themes that are treated at greater length in his recent book The Matter With Things. He focuses especially upon the coincidence of opposites (coincidentia oppositorum), which he explores (providing an extraordinary range of illustrative examples) in such a way as to make manifest both its universality and its particular relevance to our present historical moment.

The event took place online on October 26th, 2021.

Artists, Art, and Writings Mentioned in this Episode – follows the videos
Links of interest follows video

Iroquoian Cosmology, Charles Sanders Peirce, Niehls Bohr,
Friedrich Hölderlin, Goethe, Heraclitus, Alan Watts, Upanishads,
William Blake, Jacob Needleman, Hegel, Alfred North Whitehead,
M.C. Escher, “Angels and Devils”, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ryōan-ji Zen Garden,
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Carl Jung, Ochwiay Biano,
William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”, Sam Johnson, Laurence Sterne,
William Wordsworth, David Olive (physicist), William Empson,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Campbell, Empedocles,
F.W.J von Schelling, Kabbalah, Aristotle, concept of “phronesis”,
Louis Pasteur, Pierre Curie, William James, Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting”,
Jonathan Sacks, Franz Schubert, String Quartet in C Major, The Sophists,
Protagoras, Immoderate Greatness, William Ophuls, ,Oedipus Rex,
Jesus, “The Lord’s Prayer”

Ralston College
https://www.ralston.ac

Ralston College Short Courses
https://www.ralston.ac/humanities-sho…

Stephen Blackwood
https://www.stephenjblackwood.com/

Timestamps
0:00 – Introduction
4:44 – McGilchrist’s Lecture
1:05:44 – Q and A