tomorrow. 2011/1/18 ADRIE KINTZIGER <[email protected]>
> 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 > -- 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
