re 2011/1/17 david buchanan <[email protected]>
> > John said: > Since we all know what Quality is; since we all have access to the > apprehension of this fundamental guide, why is there anything wrong? > > Why? Because somewhere back in ancient Greece the Good was subordinated to > the True, because the passions were denigrated and rationality was made > divine. The reasons are historical and evolutionary. > > "In the past our common universe of reason has been in the process of > escaping, rejecting the romantic, irrational world of prehistoric man. It's > been necessary since before the time of Socrates to reject the passions, the > emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an understanding of > nature's order which was as yet unknown. Now it's time to further an > understanding of nature's order by reassimilating those passions which were > originally fled from. The passions, the emotions, the affective domain of > man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The central part. At > present we're snowed under with an irrational expansion of blind > data-gathering in the sciences because there's no rational format for any > understanding of scientific creativity. At present we are also snowed under > with a lot of stylishness in the arts ... thin art ... because there's very > little assimilation or extension into underlying form. We have artists with > no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both > with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, > it is ghastly. The time for real reunification of art and technology is > really long overdue." (ZAMM p. 294) > > “…, the one fundamental quarrel Empiricism has with Absolutism is over this > repudiation by Absolutism of the personal and aesthetic factor in the > construction of philosophy. That we all of us have feelings, Empiricism > feels quite sure. That they may be as prophetic and anticipatory of as > anything else we have, and some of them more so than others, can not > possibly be denied. But what hope is there if squaring and settling opinions > unless Absolutism will old parley on this common ground; and will admit that > all philosophies are hypotheses, to which all our faculties, emotional as > well as logical help us, and the truest of which will at the final > integration of things be found in possession of the men whose faculties on > the whole had the best diving power? (William James, “Absolutism and > Empiricism” p.96) > > 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 > -- parser 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
