Episode #223 ... Religion and the duck-rabbit - Kyoto School pt. 2

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  Hello, everyone.

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  I'm Stephen West.

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  This is Philosophize This.

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  So there's a quote from one of the members of the Kyoto School we're going to be talking about today.

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  He said, religion without philosophy is blind and philosophy without religion is vacuous.

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  So today, we're going to be talking about the relationship between philosophy and religion,

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  something the Kyoto School was always rethinking

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  as they were doing their work and understand exactly what was meant by this quote.

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  I just said, just a heads up.

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  You're going to need an understanding of the Nishitani episodes we've already done, episodes 216 and 217.

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  You're going to need to know what's meant by shunyata as an experiential framing or the groundless ground.

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  And you'll also need Nishitani's concept of realization and the double meaning in the way he uses it in his work.

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  From here on out, this episode is written as though you've listened to those two.

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  But you know what?

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  All that said, I don't even want to start with Nishitani or any of the Kyoto School stuff today.

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  Today, I want to start with something simple.

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  I want to give some long deserved attention to a very important cartoon character that's come to be known as the duck rabbit.

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  Who or what is a duck rabbit, you may ask?

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  Well, you ever seen one of those optical illusion things where half the people see a duck,

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  half the people see a rabbit when they look at it?

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