Tom Walker wrote:
>
[snip]
> The fact that not doing may be more productive than doing is heresy (or
> humility). Deus Economicus bellows at us not to trust in providence -- just
> DO it!
[snip]
Yes, "not doing" may be at times a higher form of doing (certainly
teachers should recognize this, when letting the learner flourish in
his or her own autochthony can do better than trying to
shoehorn the learner into the teacher's preconceived notions of
education...)....
(1) But I think the God (if there is one...) is more like the image
at the end of Heidegger's essay "The Principle of Reason":
sheer mindless amoral abundance-making. The God makes orgasms and oncogenes
and earth-smashing meteors and wild raspberries and everything else
under the Sun and moon and stars (and lots ot them, too!), and
none of it makes any difference to the God, because the God just
is pure Being -- "without why" (Heidegger's "Es gibt").
(2) Human society, on the other hand, seems often willfully malign.
Human society takes away the orgasms but keep the oncogenes
when it's convenient for the people at the Top. Freud
addressed this in "Civilization and its Discontents"
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/civil.html
(3) The human spirit, on the third hand ("Spirit" in an honorific,
not taxonomic sense, as in Hegel's _Phenomenology of Spirit_,
or Jean de Coras's powerful dictum: "For the spirit alone
lives, all else dies.") -- The human spirit, on the third hand,
is unalloyed goodness and nurturance and light that illuminates
all things but blinds nobody. The human spirit is "mutual
recognition" (Hegel, et al.), and it is grounded in what Heinz Kohut
described as:
The mother whose face lights up at the sight of her child
"The human spirit" is what
Jacob Bronowski was pointing to when he said that man dies,
but man is not born to die. The human spirit is "Lux mentis
lux orbis", and most of us know some of it in our lives, filtering
the indifference of Nature and despite the frequent even though
not lacking occasional exceptions malignity of society.
Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est.(sp?) So too is life.
"Yours in discourse...." (which is neither of natural nor of
societal, but the mystery of the human spirit...)
+\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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