Tintern Philosophy Circle

Next meeting by Zoom at 7.30 on Tuesday 19th March

To join this meeting please click on the link below, or copy the link and send from your browser a few minutes prior to 7.30. Invitation to join the meeting will follow. Click on ‘Open’ and ‘Join with video’. The meeting will end at about 9.00.
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Meeting ID: 882 7314 2662
Passcode: 621574

Speaker: Keith Ray
Topic: Stop Thinking, Start Living

After Vanessa's highly compelling January talk about Dr Iain McGilchrist and his Divided Brain Philosophy, Keith will be offering practical ideas based upon the Dr's perceptions of how the behaviours associated with our left-and-right hand brain hemispheres impact massively upon our daily lives, and allows our two brains to experience the same world in two different and paradoxically opposite ways. Keith's approach will be prescriptive not theoretical, colloquial rather than academic. His talk will include combined learnings from Philosophy and Neuroscience in support of his ideas. He will argue that 'thinking' is our default mode designed primarily to keep us safe. When we accept this concept we can find ways which leads to us enjoying 'living' more meaningfully, which explains the title of his talk.

John & Vanessa
About the Tintern Philosophy Circle

Tintern Philosophy Circle meets (in normal times) in the Rose & Crown Pub, situated at the centre of Tintern on the main road, at 7.30pm on the third Tuesday of every month, except August when we hold a garden party with talks on a special theme.

Events are open to anyone interested in philosophy, and no prior knowledge of philosophy is needed. We hold to no creed other than belief in the value of tolerant, friendly discussion about things that matter.

The Circle is run by Professor John Clarke and Vanessa Dodd. Monthly events are introduced by members of the circle, or by a guest speaker.

Past topics have included: philosophy of art and music, justice and human rights, existentialism and freedom, philosophy and religion, Buddhism and Eastern philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, postmodern philosophy, the nature of mind, eco-philosophy, science and truth.

Our patron is Bertrand Russell (permission pending) who was born a couple of miles from Tintern, and who concluded his famous book The Problems of Philosophy, first published a hundred years ago, with the following words:

"Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because. through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good."
Contact
Contact name
John Clarke
Email
JJClar7@aol.com
Telephone
01291 689636
Website
www.tintern-philosophy.org