[MD] subject / object logic

[Joseph Maurer]

On 14 August 2007 11:01:27 AM Ron links to William James.

Hi Ron and All,

As I read through the link I felt a familiarity. I don’t know if I had read it before or if the subject matter was familiar to me. IMO James was speaking of a "theory" of knowledge rather than "Consciousness".  

Plato proposed we know through a world of ideas. Plotinus added to that mystical knowledge.
Aristotle proposed a theory of knowledge, later refined by Thomas Aquinas, based on abstraction. SOM is based on this theory of knowledge.

Pirsig saw the difficulty of dividing the "knower" and the known, and united them by value and experience. Pirsig also proposed levels of value and IMO the social level is the level of consciousness "I am empty".

Joe




Does "Consciousness" Exist? (1904) by william james

http://fair-use.org/william-james/essays-in-radical-empiricism/does-cons
ciousness-exist


a good read.
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