Iain McGilchrist
Socrates in the City
Socrates in the City
4.7 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists to name a few. A leading scholar in the field of neurology he has published original research on neuroimaging in schizophrenia, the phenomenology of schizophrenia, and is the author of, The Master and his Emissary:The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. He joins Socrates in the City host, Eric Metaxas to discuss the myths and misconceptions between the left and right hemispheres of our brain. McGilchrist highlights the importance of understanding the balance within our brains, and how this has shaped and changed Western Civilization.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, welcome to Socrates in the studio, which is of course affiliated with Socrates |
| 0:12.1 | in the city, the city in this case being London, England. |
| 0:16.0 | In this series or the season I should say of Socrates in the studio, we're asking the larger question, |
| 0:24.4 | what is the future of the West? And under the rubric of what is the future of the West, we have |
| 0:32.5 | various guests and we're answering other questions. For example, how far west is the west, really? |
| 0:43.3 | And at what point is, in going west, does one find oneself in what we call the east? |
| 0:50.0 | It can happen. |
| 0:52.0 | We're also answering more serious questions, as you may already know. |
| 0:56.2 | My guest today is Dr. Ian McGilchrist. |
| 1:01.9 | He's a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. |
| 1:05.3 | He's an associate fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. |
| 1:10.1 | He's a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He's a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. |
| 1:14.5 | He's a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. |
| 1:19.5 | Hang on, I'm not done. |
| 1:21.4 | He's a consultant emeritus of the Bethlehem and Maudsley Hospital in London. |
| 1:26.1 | He's a former research fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins |
| 1:31.4 | University Medical School in Baltimore and a former fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in |
| 1:37.4 | Stellenbosch. He's also the author of a book that I get the impression is rather a big deal. |
| 1:50.5 | It's called The Master and His Emissary. |
| 1:53.2 | We'll be discussing that. |
| 1:54.9 | The subtitle of The Master and His Emissary is The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. |
| 2:00.1 | So we want to talk about what is the Western world and what do we mean by the making of the Western world. So we want to talk about what is the |
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