Iain McGilchrist - The Good, The Beautiful and The True
Brought to you by Channel McGilchrist and the Scientific and Medical Network
In this two-day event at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, Dr Iain McGilchrist will explore The Good, The Beautiful and The True.
With an increasingly exclusive reliance on the left hemispheric way of being in the world, to the exclusion of the more intelligent and insightful way of being of the right hemisphere, our modern age fails to understand the concepts of the good, the beautiful and the true, and takes them to be ancient ideals that are now irrelevant – or even meaningless.
Across two days of lectures and reflection, a panel discussion, and audience Q&As, Dr McGilchrist will argue that we dismiss the good, the beautiful and the true at our peril: their intrinsic nature is woven into the very fabric of the cosmos itself.
He has invited guest speakers, writer, mythographer and Christian thinker, Dr Martin Shaw, philosopher and specialist in the ancient Greek world and author of Why Plato Matters Now Professor Angie Hobbs, cosmologist, healer, futurist and author Dr Jude Currivan, and director of the Scientific and Medical Network David Lorimer, to share their views.
Lectures
Dr Iain McGilchrist – Lecture 1 ‘The Value of Value’
Lecture 2 ‘So How Do We Remake the World (Because We Can)?’
Dr Martin Shaw – ‘Mythic Reality And The Arising Of Value’
In his lecture Dr Martin Shaw draws on myth, nature and religious liturgy as component elements in the arising of value. Not as an arid set of laws, but repeated immersion in the numinous powers of beauty. From Christian and folkloric traditions, Shaw gives examples of how such repeated exposure can contribute to cultural traditions that raise up what is most merciful and creative in the human condition.
Professor Angie Hobbs – ‘Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and a Good Life’
Beauty is of central importance throughout Plato’s works. In this talk, Angie Hobbs discusses the role of harmony in Plato and considers how, when internalized in the psyche, it equates to virtue, mental health and flourishing. She argues that Plato’s thinking on proportion and harmony has its roots in the Pythagorean application of mathematics to musical theory and the cosmos as a whole, and shows how Plato develops their work and extends it to the human psyche and society, emphasising the vital importance of aesthetic education and early immersion in physical beauty.
Dr Jude Currivan – ‘How the Unitive Science of a Living Universe Embodies Beauty, Truth and Goodness’
Scientific discoveries at all scales and across numerous fields of research are turning the old paradigm of a mechanistic Universe, on its head. Instead, the evidence is revealing that our essentially living Universe meaningfully exists and purposefully evolves, from simplicity to diversity, complexity and individuated self-awareness.
This emergent new understanding converging with universal wisdom teachings, invites us to re-member that Beauty, Truth and Goodness are embodied in its foundational nature.
David Lorimer – ‘Embodying and Enacting Love, Wisdom and Truth’
- Full price tickets from £185
- Concession tickets £75
- Online webinar tickets - Standard: £55, Student: £45
- Suitable for all ages
- Doors will open at 9:15am
- Latecomers will not be permitted
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