The Fundamental Stance

There is a Fundamental Stance such that every person may guide her or his life and decision making in a coherent and complete way, a good way attuned to the Good. In the past, this function was aligned with religious doctrines and practices (in the sense of institutionalised Religion) in the West, later replaced by progressive-scientific … Continue reading The Fundamental Stance

Clear Obscurity of the Mind

I am a student of Eastern Philosophies and strive for clarity, so that these sources of wisdom are not portrayed in the West (or anywhere else) as mysterious, occult practices and may instead be adopted with confidence. So sometimes wonder why it is from the East itself that we receive obscure, unhelpful notions which do … Continue reading Clear Obscurity of the Mind

Derek Cabrera’s principles and axioms of conceptual systems

Source: Derek Cabrera, "Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, Perspectives: The Simple Rules of Complex Conceptual Systems: A Universal Descriptive Grammar of Cognition" - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, International Society for the Systems Sciences (D) Making Distinctions – which consist of an identity and an other (S) Organizing Systems … Continue reading Derek Cabrera’s principles and axioms of conceptual systems

"A Quaternion of metaphors for the hermeneutics of life," by Richard Jung

The following 'seven theses' can be found in Richard Jung's "A quaternion of metaphors for the hermeneutics of life,” a paper presented at the International Conference of the Society for General Systems Research, Los Angeles, California, 1985. "They are the metaphors ORGANISM, MACHINE, MIND, and TEMPLATE. I am calling them a QUATERNION, employing the term … Continue reading "A Quaternion of metaphors for the hermeneutics of life," by Richard Jung

Anti-philosophical metaphysics

If you stand in any gathering in the public or private, business or institutional world, and try to make a philosophical point, you will be in a minority. Most of the time a "minority of one" as the saying goes. Managers and bureaucrats surrounding you will either excuse themselves or simply ignore your point saying … Continue reading Anti-philosophical metaphysics