Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 17:54:51 -0600
Subject: Re: 'art of gloss


>An ergodic [ergon work + hodos way] aspect relates
>to how each part or a sizable set of parts equally
>represents the whole and so recurs in other parts.
>
>What would truth be if it were a single situation,
>severely limited to one's own perspective and even
>limiting that perspective as a result to be truth?
>
>A revelation of being is not limited to experience
>or meditative engendering of an experience, but is
>had in theories that gather and order experiences.
>
>This cosmic logic had with authentic attentiveness
>to what lies clearly before as well as to what may
>be such from other stances and others' structures.
>
>"... ha me oida oude oiomai eidenai" [Apology 21d]
>
>Socrates became an icon of wisdom in that he would
>not assume that he knows what he does not know; he
>does not let his finitude set knowledge his alone.
>
>Is then this acknowledged ignorance, humility both
>epistemic and ethical, the beginning wonder at all
>things and the final say on human need to relearn?
>


Rick and Malcolm,

I think you're both underestimating the power of language in the "hands" of
an enspirited writer, like Nietzsche, for example.  When I read Nietzsche
sometimes I have the sense of  a pure ( or near pure) showing of being
(probably, as you say, in one of its more limited aspects, but who am 
I to say?).
I think this is how revelation takes place: in a saying which finds 
itself surprised
at the near perfect words which flowed from the already said, into 
the never having been said.
That's how it felt, I think, to the writer of some of the most moving 
revelations in Exodus,
of Nietzsche etc.  And if they could do it . . .

Allen ( hoping for the best)



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