Chris is a philosophical writer with interests in dialogue, symbols, and the concept of self. He is a co-author of several publications, including Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Open Book Publishers, 2017), “Gnosis in the Second Person” (in Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds, Perspectiva Press, 2021) and “Dialectic into Dialogos and the Pragmatics of No-thingness in a Time of Crisis” (in Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021). He is heavily involved in the work of John Vervaeke and Vervaeke foundation addressing the meaning crisis.
Check out the Vervaeke foundation: https://vervaekefoundation.org/
And the awakentomeaning practises: https://awakentomeaning.com/
In this podcast, we discuss theatre, narrative, mythology, character development, art vs propaganda, pesudo-religious ideologies (or mythologies) the barrier between fiction and facts that harms development, and much more!
Timestamps:
0:00 - intro
0:49 - Arthur Miller & The Meaning Crisis
5:47 - Imaginal play & Wisdom
7:53 - Plato understood as drama
10:38 - Stories & Virtue development
14:25 - centrality of character in ethics & narrative
18:11 - Plato’s warning against drama
23:29 - Art vs Propaganda
27:25 - Hero Meta-mythology
33:44 - Nominalist obstacles to truth
42:28 - love and socratic practice
54:51 - drama and imitating the good
01:05:38 - Miller’s writing process & logos
