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William James made ontology easier to understand. Nonentity(nothingness) and Being(datum) = existence. Fast forward to Heidegger and you have a discourse on Universal Being. I wonder if he has some universal idea for nonentity. I'll be studying Being and Time for the next month, so this will be helpful.
I've been focussing more and more on art and have been refining my program. It'll come out very well when I am through. In fact, I have some confidence that it will all be very clear as to what it means, even to those who are looking at it. I have been trying to reconcile, in my head, my passions for both art and philosophy. What I have learned through philosophy, has been crystalizing my personal searches and missions, and I think that I have devised a means of exemplifying it into artistic imagery. I won't know until I have finished it, and it will take me at least into the Spring. But for the first time is nearly ten years, I may have found a satisfactory means of marrying both art and philosophy with my personal quest for answers.
A rational orientation towards the Universe will only yield a rational knowing of the universe. Science is very good at that. But this discriminates against the understanding of all other aspects of this Universe. This validates christianity; to theologically orient oneself towards the Universe, one can experience a theological and divine knowing of the universe, although it filters away the rational knowing. And what about aesthetics? An artist can aesthetically make the same orientation and find the aesthetics of the Universe. And if one can do all three in simultaneity, scientifically, theologically, and aesthetically? And Then to harmonize all three? What would THAT be like? My personal program involves philosophical, theological and aesthetic orientations towards both the Universe, God, and while I am at it, mankind, and as I'm going on with it all, zip it all together into a unified body of knowledge and experience. I wish sometimes that I could also make a scientific orientation so that it would be more complete. I don't care how big of an order this looks like, but I've been realizing that I have been doing just this for a long time. Only now I'm realizing it and am refining my orientations and means of trying to understand it. What I'll find, I won't know; I'll just go as far as I can with it and experience what ever I can.
I've been focussing more and more on art and have been refining my program. It'll come out very well when I am through. In fact, I have some confidence that it will all be very clear as to what it means, even to those who are looking at it. I have been trying to reconcile, in my head, my passions for both art and philosophy. What I have learned through philosophy, has been crystalizing my personal searches and missions, and I think that I have devised a means of exemplifying it into artistic imagery. I won't know until I have finished it, and it will take me at least into the Spring. But for the first time is nearly ten years, I may have found a satisfactory means of marrying both art and philosophy with my personal quest for answers.
A rational orientation towards the Universe will only yield a rational knowing of the universe. Science is very good at that. But this discriminates against the understanding of all other aspects of this Universe. This validates christianity; to theologically orient oneself towards the Universe, one can experience a theological and divine knowing of the universe, although it filters away the rational knowing. And what about aesthetics? An artist can aesthetically make the same orientation and find the aesthetics of the Universe. And if one can do all three in simultaneity, scientifically, theologically, and aesthetically? And Then to harmonize all three? What would THAT be like? My personal program involves philosophical, theological and aesthetic orientations towards both the Universe, God, and while I am at it, mankind, and as I'm going on with it all, zip it all together into a unified body of knowledge and experience. I wish sometimes that I could also make a scientific orientation so that it would be more complete. I don't care how big of an order this looks like, but I've been realizing that I have been doing just this for a long time. Only now I'm realizing it and am refining my orientations and means of trying to understand it. What I'll find, I won't know; I'll just go as far as I can with it and experience what ever I can.