[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

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2011/1/17 david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>

>
> 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)
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