Jan Leendert Van Der Mooren on Socratic Discussion, Losing Religion and Making Meaning

Unabridged You

In this episode Dutchman and philosopher Jan Leendert Van Der Mooren shares his story of losing his religion and later finding Socratic Discussion as a way to make meaning in the world. He explains Socratic Discussion and demonstrates to us how the meaning we give a concept can change, or evolve based on a person’s experiences of the world.
Jan Leendert also raises the idea of not only the unabridged person, but an unabridged world, an idea proposed as quite important given the super global state of contemporary society. He suggests that a start of a solution is learning to listen to other people, no matter how different their experiences, ideas, beliefs or political thoughts may be to your own.
This is the link to Jan Leendert's website:
https://destadsfilosoof.nl/
You may notice that this website is in Dutch, but as evident by this episode Jan Leendert is very capable of communicating in English. If you would like to be in contact with him you can contact him through his website.

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