Alexis McLeod
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771 appearances
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first heard Apr 2018
last heard Apr 2020
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And so when we see these systems develop, um we what we note what I notice at least is that these sees these systems seem to develop in somewhat similar ways um across traditions.
They're not always exactly.
Exactly the same, of course.
Um, but the the way that um that you kind of construct a correlative mes metaphysics, for example, in early China tends to look a lot like the ways that we see these develop in in uh other areas uh as well.
And so if we can make uh if we can use these this kind of interpretive frame of early China or of certain aspects of Western thought to make sense of things that we that aren't quite clear in Maya thought because
They're they're already a text or um just because we you know we lost we've lost so much, that it doesn't uh it doesn't show that that this is necessarily what the Maya held, but I think it gives us a kind of
Plausible interpretation, that's one possibility.
Which I think ends up being really no more than we can do with most of our historical interpretations.
Because when we have to give interpretations, the idea is that there's something that hasn't been said, right?
Or there's something that's left unclear.
And so our interpretations often are constructed on the basis of, say, something like the principle of charity, in which we just try to make the most sense of, say, Plato's view.
To make it the most plausible we can, right?
Which is another kind of method.
Um that doesn't show that this is necessarily what Plato or anyone else held, but it shows that here's what a consistent view might look like, something like this.
And so that's what I take it that I'm kind of doing with the uh with with the analogical method, is that is offering an just another tool that we can use to build uh consistent interpretations, and also one that might help us to kind of understand.
how these how these various ideas emerge in similar ways from in within different traditions.
So it it kind of plays this role of um helping uh the comparative philosophical project as well.
Yeah, so uh time it plays a lot of uh different roles in uh in early Maya thought.
One of the I think the one of the kind of central roles that it plays is to help them uh understand how to make sense of of change.
Um and also how to make sense of the uh the human role in uh constructing or in completing the the cosmos, which is actually something that that I noticed is kind of similar to some of the things that you see in the uh early uh Chinese traditions.
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