[MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

[John Carl]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Andre Broersen <andrebroersen at gmail.com>wrote:


However,the resolution of these paradoxes allows us to reach a 'higher'
> level of consciousness, a higher level of 'understanding', a higher level
> of
> awareness... by going deeper and realising that apparent contradictions in
> fact, at this deeper level, complement eachother.


And right there, in a nutshell is what attracts me to Josiah Royce's later
thoughts on Philosophy of Loyalty and Philosophy of Community.  I think
those two things, loyalty and community, hold the best answers for this
"synthesis of apparent contradiction" is what brings about lasting quality
in thought and word.


> What I am getting at is that standard logical methods, as a tool, have high
> intellectual value. However, as a guide to aid our understanding they are
> very inadequate. For this you need, as Reanney would have it,
> the non-algorithmic, aesthetic approach.
>

Yes, or as Needleman asserts, you need "a teaching" - which is more than the
transmission of facts in that there is an ordered sequence of information
that is appropriate to where you are at the time.

Thanks for your thoughts, Andre.  I find them very thoughtful and
thought-provoking.  Hmmm.... weird that, the best adjective I can grant a
thought was that it was a thoughtful thought.  An idealistic idea.  A
conceptual concept.  Funny things, words.

John