Well Platt and Horse, You guys are sure thinking along my path right now.
I sure agree that we can't throw bad old intellect out the window. We need it more than ever! We're suffering a dearth of balance, is all. Poetry is called for in addition to intellect - as a framer of intellect, as a source of intellect's innate meanings. I'm really on this rant now, and it's probably gonna continue... John On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Horse, > I think reality can be known without concepts -- the hot stove example -- a > pre- > intellectual understanding of the Quality reality. To rationally > communicate > that understanding to somebody else, however, requires we use a "menu" of > static intellectual patterns consisting of subjects and objects, the > fundamental nature of language. > > But, that brings up a question I've been wondering about. Is poetry > (metaphor) > within the intellectual level? Or is it more within the code of art? Or is > it a > bridge between the two, like the link between art and science at the > cutting > edge of the unknown? > > Would appreciate your thoughts. > > Thanks, > Platt > > > On 7 May 2010 at 22:51, Horse wrote: > > Maybe the fundamental nature of reality can't be contained by intellect > but without intellect and a good metaphysics would we even know that > there was a fundamental nature to reality. It's unlikely that we'd even > have the concept of it because that's an intellectual pattern. And > without intellect we would have no way of creating that concept. > > On 07/05/2010 20:48, [email protected] wrote: > > On 7 May 2010 at 12:44, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > > > > [Platt] > > "Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page > menu > > and no food." (Lila, 5) > > > > [Arlo] > > A quote from a book of metaphysics. > > > > A metaphor illustrating that the fundamental nature of reality cannot be > > contained by intellect. > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
