Thought – like the ‘growing of hair’ According to ancient Buddhist traditions, thinking is an involuntary operation in nature like the ‘growing of your hair’ or the ‘change of weather’, but what we identify with as ordinary thinking, the attentive recognition, comes after the fact, is reactive to the unconscious cognitive operation that is always …
Negative and positive reason- attitudes towards dead end- In the dialectical process when a beginning point advances towards the end, resolving what it is already, perspectives of the observer towards the void, the void is the end of a thought process where the end returns to the beginning, proving or demonstrating, the void or the …
Section 81 (last updated 07.02.2021 Alienation disconnected from true essence when the creator worships the objects they create estrangement- making normal things abnormal and abnormal things normal. Relates to being ignorant, a disconnection from the essence that makes the thing. For example, if the essence of man is to be informed and be rational, estrangement …
Section 80 (last updated 06.13.2021) “you are the gleam in your fathers eyes” You are in the mind of your son, as the phrase goes the son is in the “gleam of his fathers eyes”, he is his potential, observing behind the scenes, waiting to emerge into existence to carry out the task the father …
Section 79 (last updated 6.9.2021) (After objects- magnitude) we are confronted with a difficulty here . When we take in conjunction the quantitive fact that, the mental organ characterizing a particular stage in the advancement of reason, as simply an object in the environment among many other objects; whereas in comparison to it being a …
Traditionally, the vulgar scientific materialist depict the universe as a place of space, empty and void, devoid of its quality. What they leave out is the actual quality of space, known as “time”. Before we understand why it is so hard to define time, let us explain why it is so easy to empirically demonstrate …
Section 77 (last updated 05.24.2021) Duration The present idea of “simultaneity” must include an understanding beyond its mere definition that something is “being done, occurring or happening at the same time” because the question becomes, what is occurring at the same time? When we fill the form of this question with the content of qualities …
Section 76 (last updated 05.20.2021) Whitehead quotes Lecture seven: Nature lifeless Old cultures We inherit the traditional doctrine: we can detect the oversights, the superstitions, the rash generalizations of the past ages. We know so well what we mean and yet were remain so curiously uncertain about the formulation of any detail of our knowledge. …
Section 75 (last updated 5.12.2021) “Man begets man” or “life makes life”. This phrase has the deeper inclination that the drive for evolutionary process is not merely a natural process developing on its own, but rather that the content of this process consists of life forms reaching a certain level of development whereby they make …
Section 74 (last updated 5.1.2021) part 1 (audible) The idea that History is determined What it means for history to be determined is a very challenging notion in philosophy. The law of mind applicable to the idea that History is determined in the abstract, every possible event and relation is rationally considered and conceived. Mind …