[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

tomorrow.

2011/1/18 ADRIE KINTZIGER <parser666 at gmail.com>

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> 2011/1/17 david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> "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)
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>> “…, 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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