Re: MD The MOQ and Mysticism 101

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 05:26:23 GMT

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    Chin,

    > And is Scott calling me "touchy feely?"

    So I did, and I apologize. But...

    > Maybe I threw you off a little with the right brain left brain analogy,
    but
    > I said;
    > "The two sides of the brain do not work apart from
    > each other as left and right side, but communicate with each other on all
    > things. Logic and reason are our SQ, and beauty and intuition are our DQ
    > feeders."

    I disagree with this. What I object to is the common understanding of
    mysticism that places logic and reason on the SQ, and therefore
    anti-mystical, side, and that is often done by touchy-feely types, the
    "Just go with the flow" sort of (non-)thinking. In my view, reason is
    DQ/SQ. What are known as Aha! moments are moments of high-quality, Dynamic
    reason. Logic, if it just means Aristotelian logic, is pretty static. But
    it can also mean any pattern of thinking, such as Hegel's dialectical logic
    or Nishida's logic of contradictory identity, and in these cases it is
    pretty dynamic

    - Scott

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