From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 21:58:09 BST
David M,
> Scott said:
> Of course, the Plotinian has the opposite challenge of explaining how
> the intellect can materialize...
>
> DM: My view on this relates to how SQ can emerge from DQ.
> The answer is simple. DQ withdraws. DQ is creativity/change/flux.
> When does flux end, when DQ withdraws, when instead of flux the
> same again occurs, why does it repeat and occur again and form
> patterns, because DQ has found value in its creativity, it has
> looked upon itself and found itself to have beauty and value, DQ
> falls in love with itself, DQ is captiviated by its own outpourings
> and captures itself in its own gaze, it looks, the look is the
> beginning of duration, what was flux is held for a moment of duration
> and sameness, and hence DQ is born.
I presume that last line should be "hence SQ is born"?
Anyway, I hope you really don't think that this is simple. After all,
aren't you using the product of all this: DQ/SQ duality, in the
deescription, for example, with the phrase "it has looked upon itself"? And
"the look is the beginning of duration" is impossible: duration is a
requirement for a look. I'm not saying this is wrong, since one must speak
analogically, but I think it starts from an incorrect premise: that SQ is
to be derived from DQ. In my view, they both realize themseleves in
polarity from each other, and together in polarity with Quality.
- Scott
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