Copernican Revolution
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Oct 31, 2026
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
Maybe not so easily, but in theory, you could go there.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
Now, Since the Copernican Revolution there has of course been a great turn in our worldview.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
And now we know that nowhere in this universe is heaven or hell to be found.
Jonathan Ivo LöwerHOST
Now, that didn't come about immediately with Copernicus.
Gary DunbarGUEST
And a lot of, even some of the Greek philosophers, had a pretty good idea that the cosmos and spheres, the planets were round, Earth's property was round.
Gary DunbarGUEST
We can go back and look at astronomy, the Copernican Revolution, which really was, here is science and religion at odds with each other.
Gary DunbarGUEST
but as we know now uh pernicus was correct um we do uh know that the earth falls around the sun sun is now we know the sun is
Ziggy KozickiHOST
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Sybil JoHOST
Bodom was not an isolated case.
Sybil JoHOST
In this century of geniuses, Bacon, Kepler, Galileo, Shakespeare, Pascal, Descartes, a century that saw the triumph of the Copernican Revolution, the birth of modern science, and the development of philosophical and scientific rationalism, witchcraft became one of the favorite subjects of debate for the European intellectuals.
Sybil JoHOST
So I don't think we often think of Shakespeare and Descartes as being contemporary with the witch burnings.
Sybil JoHOST
Again, the popular myth is that they came in and stopped it.
Dave FarinaHOST
We assigned them divine status and wrote myths about them in our first feeble attempts to explain the natural world.
Dave FarinaHOST
Then, eventually, between the Copernican Revolution and the 20th century, we gradually figured out what these objects are.
Dave FarinaHOST
We learned about how systems like ours develop, to yield a central star, planets that orbit the star, in our case eight, and countless moons that orbit the planets.
Dave FarinaHOST
We learned that other stars have their own worlds, and that innumerable other galaxies full of stars are strewn about this unthinkably vast universe.
AnnHOST
Yep.
Chad SmithGUEST
Um, I've heard him say we're about to experience a Copernican shift, um-
AnnHOST
Oh, my God.
AnnHOST
Yes.
AnnHOST
I've heard where...
AnnHOST
Sorry, I had to close the window 'cause of the persons mowing lawn.
AnnHOST
A Copernican shift where our whole concept of reality is about to change?
Chad SmithGUEST
Right.
Andrew FloresGUEST
But I feel like in some sense, Jung takes the more pre-psychoanalytic concept of Freud drive, will, and the unconscious.
Andrew FloresGUEST
And what do I mean by that? Well, again, it's this sort of technicality within the history of thought about the Copernican Revolution, a Copernican shift in the universe, and the Ptolemaic model.
Andrew FloresGUEST
where for Freud, the unconscious is not really a substance, it's not a metaphysical concept, but it's something in the discovery within the domain of science decenters the concept of man, right? We have Copernicus and Galileo who create the first paradigm shift by de-centering the Earth.
Andrew FloresGUEST
And then we have, of course, Kant's own Copernican Revolution.
Andrew FloresGUEST
And then Darwin de-centering man from the animal kingdom and this idea of natural selection.
Andrew FloresGUEST
But it's really Freud who delivers the final blow to the ego by showing that man is not even the master of his own temple, his own body.