[MD] Logos is not ergon

X Acto xacto at rocketmail.com
Fri Sep 18 06:55:33 PDT 2009


Andre,
Excellent, I tend to believe this is exactly why Aristotle created systems
of meaning, because virtue was erroding. He set meaning, universally in
concrete by creating axioms of meaning. A collection of universal base 
assumptions everyone agreed with and none could deny as "fact". 
Concrete meaning wich could not be
twisted or interpreted.
He was attempting to save Logos as ergon by seperating it from virtue.
He saw virtue as a value that depended on the ethics and honor of the 
individual. Thus the separation of good from truth.

We can still see this split, religeon still sees goodness as truth and light.
Science sees truth as not always being good, often truth can be bad and dark.
Therefore truth is seperate from goodness. Truth then is a kind of objective
value where goodness is a subjective value open to interpretaion.
Aristotle demonstrated that truth stands seperate from good in meaning.
MEANING it all boils down to meaning. Which is another way of saying value.

First philosophy, became a given. an axiom itself. a cornerstone layed and forgotton
It's meaning and the understanding of it's function lost.

Aristotle fused logos and ergon and called it truth.

When the word "I" was fused with the "action" or "deed" of being,
the self became concrete and fact, defined as a unit seperate and distinct from
the virtues and values of society.

The baby thrown out with the bathwater was wisdom. The wisdom to understand 
the use of and the difference between goodness and truth. The socratic play
of dialectic between them for a deeper and broader understanding of be-ing
the awareness of their value.

The desire of meaning is the root of suffering. when virtue is lost, laws appear.
when goodness is lost, truth appears, when all know beauty to be "beautiful"
ugliness appears.

Is inquirey desire? or is it understanding
Is understanding desire? or is it wonder
Is wonder desire? or is it the awareness of be-ing

Is to be, to desire? or is it simply to "be"

when we simply be, does desire satiate itself?
is preferance natural? exclusion un-natural?
preference as it arises, acceptance as it comes

Is this dynamic virtue?

the wisdom of wonder and inquirey?

the value of meaning?


      



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