[MD] The Myth of Reason

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Hello Marsha,
It is of my opinion "IS" has the place of defining the concept of entity.
I've thought long and hard about "entity", Plato called it form,
Heraticlus Logos. The common understanding we share, as a culture
and as human patterns.

Whats really interesting is how I see the modern western struggle of materialism and rationalism
really representing the difference in defining entity in the way that Plato and Aristotle
commonly represent. Material form vs rational form that both rest on the concept of
entity-ship as what "is".







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From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:24:58 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Myth of Reason



Greetings Ron,

I've read your essay, but I did not understand what exactly you were 
getting at.  And this post, too, leaves me puzzled.  I'm in the 
pattern mode of exploration, and maybe that's inhibiting my 
understanding.  From your title, I do think I agree with you.  I have 
settled on inductive and deductive logic as useful tools.  Not sure 
about 'is'.  Is it somehow like the scalpel in carving up reality?

Marsha



At 03:53 PM 12/9/2008, you wrote:
>To all,
>In my essay "the function of form" I trace the origins of SOM
>To the Hebrew word "is" and how it effected Greek thought.
>In it I state that Parmenides concluded that "is" or being or
>awareness, always was. That logos, the common understanding,
>the abstract, always existed.
>Plato argued that logos was form. Aristotle maintained that it
>was the arguement from the particular experience to a universal
>understanding.
>Logos is the root word of logic. Logos in christianity was made flesh
>and worshiped as God.
>Parmenides maintained that the only way to realize truth was through
>abstract thought, through reason.
>Logos is the pivotal Greek ideal that wrought SOM.
>The worship of logic as God
>
>Heraclitus popularized the word and as I believe was often misunderstood.
>Heraclitus proclaimed that the world was constatnly in flux and that 
>only through
>the abstract universal understanding of things may any sort of order 
>be derived.
>He stated:
>"all things come to pass in accordance with this word" and "the word 
>is common."
>It is "the account which governs the universe (ta hola, the whole)."
>

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