325 - JP Marceau - Recovering the Metaphysics of Symbolism
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This course will dive into content from Jean-Philippe Marceau's forthcoming book entitled Post-reductionist Christianity: A Way Out of the Meaning Crisis, which will be published by Symbolic World Press in Spring 2024. In the 5-week course, Marceau will provide a detailed introduction to the metaphysics developed in the Symbolic World over the last few years, particularly in discussions with John Vervaeke and Jonathan Pageau. Like in the book, Marceau will explain that nihilistic materialism, symbolized by the zombie, has died at its own hands, and that non-reductive naturalism is currently tracking toward a return to classical metaphysics. Then, he will explain how Christian metaphysics goes further than classical metaphysics and non-reductive naturalism, ultimately shedding more light on reality. Finally, Marceau will present advanced material not covered in the book, such as what distinguishes symbolic metaphysics from perennialist, universalist, or idealist metaphysics.
COURSE: Symbolic World Metaphysics, with JP Marceau. (Jonathan Pageau will also cohost 3 of the 5 classes.)
CLASS DATES: 5 classes, on Wednesdays, January 24, and 31, February 7, 14, and 21
TIME: 3:00pm to 5:00pm ET
PRICE: US$125 for the entire course
All course materials will be provided
Class 1: Zombies, Nihilism, and the Death of Materialism (January 24)
Class 2: Recovering Classical Metaphysics and Participation (January 31)
Class 3: The Incarnation (February 7)
Class 4: The Heart of Christian Metaphysics (February 14)
Class 5: Advanced Topics (February 21)
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| 0:00.0 | So I had this love for still the physical, especially physical science that I was trying to |
| 0:05.2 | use in my studies. |
| 0:06.9 | I was talking with you to try to get more into the symbolic quality. |
| 0:10.1 | I was also talking with John Riecki about the cognitive science side and also in general |
| 0:14.6 | it was great on the physics side. |
| 0:16.8 | And I was always trying to bridge mainly between you and John, I would say. |
| 0:20.6 | It took several years. |
| 0:21.6 | I would often run arguments by you and by him and try to see if I can make something. |
| 0:25.6 | Through this, I developed, I think, pretty carefully a path from materialism all the way to the symbolic world. |
| 0:33.6 | And even up to the more, let's see, esoteric debates in symbolism, like, how is it exactly that the world exists in Christ? |
| 0:41.4 | And how is it that the world exists through human consciousness? |
| 0:44.0 | And like all of these more esoteric kind of questions. |
| 1:02.0 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So hello everyone. I am very happy to be here with J.P. Marceau. |
| 1:16.6 | J.P., for those who have followed the channel for a very long time, you've seen him on the channel. |
| 1:21.6 | For years, he was the editor of the Symbolic World blog. He's really been a partner in kind of developing a lot of the |
| 1:28.4 | symbolic world ideas. And we're going to launch a course where he's going to be giving a class |
| 1:34.5 | called the metaphysics of symbolism, where we're going to look at the relationship between |
| 1:39.3 | metaphysical ideas and the symbolic world as we kind of presented and also his take on it. |
| 1:46.4 | I'll be part of it to some extent. |
| 1:48.8 | He'll be doing part of it alone. |
| 1:50.7 | And we're also announcing that we are going to publish a book on the same subject by JP. |
| 1:56.9 | And so I'm really happy to see all this coming together. |
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