Listen now (17 mins) | by Michael Minnicino
Freud must have been influenced by the “pleasure principle” advocated by Jeremy Bentham.
I'm not sure any of this stuff is original. My thesis is that a lot of this "enlightened" intellectualism is just taking older, gnostic/hermetic ideas and adding a modern patina to them. Like "Percy Jackson."
There is certainly a generational imperative at play that makes it seem like a natural evolution.
Freud must have been influenced by the “pleasure principle” advocated by Jeremy Bentham.
I'm not sure any of this stuff is original. My thesis is that a lot of this "enlightened" intellectualism is just taking older, gnostic/hermetic ideas and adding a modern patina to them. Like "Percy Jackson."
There is certainly a generational imperative at play that makes it seem like a natural evolution.