From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 19:40:39 BST
Scot
Found the Barfield link very interesting. Lots of
overlap with Jung, Narby, Eric Neumann and Chris Macann
from my reading list. Also with some of the language
theory in post-modernism. This quote:
If we had actually made the advance, we should have become naturally, unforcedly, and unremittingly aware that the mind cannot refer to a natural object without at the same time referring to its own activity. And this in turn would require an equally unforced awareness not only that scientific discovery is always a discovery about language, but also that it is always a discovery about the self which uses language. ("Language and Discovery," in The Rediscovery of Meaning and Other Essays)
This is what I mean by the inseparable 3-some Man/Language/Being. This is the 3-some that
make up the ontology of structured experience. Or a object/activity/self(always a commonly human self=Man)/language
irreducible group, although I think you can move from one pole towards another, e.g. towards Being/Nothing and away
from Man/Language. Certainly agree that you have to start talking about SOM if you are to understand the world/period/psyche
we currently live in. But as per Pirsig/Barfield we need to put it in a unity of some kind to plug the gaps, such as
participation or Quality.
regards & thanks for the suggested reading. I am sure I have heard of Worlds Apart somewhere -interesting figure, just shows how many angles you can approach anti-dualism from. The Barfield angle looks very plausible and substantial. Did not disagree with anything I read on the 'praxagora' introduction to Barfield. Start banging on about Barfield, I'm listening.
David Morey
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