From: Oldehippie1947@aol.com
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 12:01:11 GMT
Sam
Your description of the eudaimonic level of thinking is what I call empathic
rationality. It is what lies between the horns of the bull in Pirsigs
metaphore where he uses the horns of the bull to represent what he calls
scientific thinking and romantic thinking. In his search for quality he said
by answering quality in the scientific sense the horn of romantic thinking
would gore him and visa versa. He then said the answer must lie between the
horns. I call that thinking empathic rationality. Empathy is a relativily new
phenomena to society. We can find instances of it into ancient times but it
hasw not become a part of the collective mind within our society until recent
times. In fact, the word empathy was first introduced into the American
dictionary until 1902. And it is still evolving into our consciousness.
Empathy is a communications process. Empathy diminishes the inherent conflict
between our 2 processes of thinking. This allows for a more rational process
of thinking which is what you describe.
Darrell
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