Philosophy in the Park and the Orchard

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This is a tricky one!

There's a fine line between free speech and hate speak or is it so fine?

Are people using the free speech rallying cry as an excuse for ignorance and insensitivity?

Is there an anti-woke deluge about to fall on our heads?

Does any side have the moral high-ground?

See why I'm scared witless to deliver this exploration of such a tinderbox?

You'll find me hiding in a corner!

But seriously, this question really does need to be explored or the world is wandering blind into who-knows-where.

From Pythagorus, Aristotle, through the arabic scientists and renaisance discoveries to Newton and to the present day, science has opened up the human race's understanding of how the physical universe works.

However it struggles to explain consciousness and other aspects of life that are experienced but don't fit easily into the scientific method.

This talk explores this philosophically to point, perhaps to a way that this seeming conflict may be resolved.

From Pythagorus, Aristotle, through the arabic scientists and renaisance discoveries to Newton and to the present day, science has opened up the human race's understanding of how the physical universe works.

However it struggles to explain consciousness and other aspects of life that are experienced but don't fit easily into the scientific method.

This talk explores this philosophically to point, perhaps to a way that this seeming conflict may be resolved; a holistic paradigm.

Talk given by Peter van Roekel