hi mel,
philosophy is not just about clarity of understanding. indeed at university it is not even about this (what did a friend say: the art of remaining in perpetual confusion) philosophy is about what we do when we understand. truth is self-knowledge. delphic knowedge. this epithet captures the pivot point between homeric/sophistic/divinatory/ecstatic ancient greece, and platonic/aristotelian ancient greece, which is the beginning of SOM. knowledge became divorced from self-knowledge, self-knowledge diminishes in the wake of the creation of more and more 'objective' knowledge. the universal truth of tat tvam asi is forgotten and the fall gets into full swing. the world is not some object to be studied, indeed there are no objects for study strictly speaking. the world is a mirror of our selves, and we are a mirror of the world. to take responsibility for oneself is to take responsibility for the world. all the massacres, genocides, ecocides are not incidental folks - they are a direct reflection of YOU....make no mistake, you, we are the murderers, the liars, the thiefs, and most of us still do it every day - consuming the earth through our mindless purchases, lying to each other and ourselves about how we truly feel, murdering, by proxy, the plant and animal life of the planet, and murdering by proxy, the poor and non-white fraction of the human population. i am not on about righteous anger mel; i am not railing against past injustices, i am telling myself and you and everyone that we are all the fucking problem NOW. until we get that we remain dumb components in the global rape and slaughter machine. cheers gav Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
