From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 13:37:15 GMT
Darrell,
So 'empathic rationality' is a phrase of your coining? I would argue that
the underlying idea is an ancient one; one codified (although not original
to him) by Aristotle, pre-eminently in the Nicomachean ethics. In any case,
whatever we call it, I think we share a perspective.
Sam
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> 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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