From: Peterfabriani@aol.com
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 12:10:14 BST
In a message dated 10/19/02 3:13:07 AM GMT Daylight Time, jse885@spinn.net
writes:
> As my pet author Barfield would say, it is the intellect that makes the
> individual possible, and as SOLAQI points out, the value of q-intellect
> is the subject/object divide, i.e., the creation of the individual. So
> in a way, calling the fourth level the level of the individual or the
> level of the intellectual amounts to the same thing. The advantage of
> the latter over the former is that it identifies the faculty that lets
> one grow as an individual. If I am to "let DQ into my life", then it is
> the intellect that I employ, as it is what enables me to detach from
> fixed sq, at whatever level.
>
> - Scott
>
Hello Scott,
I am new to the forum but i liked thinking about Socrates so i became
interested. But i don't know what SOLAQI is? I am not familiar with the
acronyms people use. Intellect is not lived in isolation but in community
like this one here? More than this, intellect makes use of culturally learned
patterns, so the individual becomes more of a social motivator then an
intellectual motivator? Intellectual patterns live and evolve in a community
within which sparks strike off those who wish to contribute - it is a dynamic
process and this may be why Plato emphasised the importance of doing
philosophy rather than writing about it?
As i ramble along it seems we agree if what i have said amounts to anything?
Where i may disagree is along the lines of the individual, because i think
the individual is a story culture invents in order to promote culture, or
social patterns of value, itself.
Peter.
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