Recognition of Reason (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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For myself, I am not quite convinced by Mr. Pols, though this may be for temperamental reasons. The method which persistently aims at the midpoint, though it is excellent at hitting this bullseye, does' not give an account of the rest of the circles on the target. What Pols is interested in is that moment in thinking when subject, object, and their appropri ate symbols are gathered like the scattered leaves of the uni verse into one volume, and distinction of thought, being, and language is done away with. I agree with the description that he gives of this, but I should also like to know what takes place when this intellectual fusion - to the unconvinced it might seem a kind of articulated rapture - does not come forth: there are the hours when we are lazy, unconstructive, when our minds give over and we are passive to sensation; or when we are imperceptive, and even our senses flounder. And there are also the minutes when like the Stranger from Elea or like Hegel we are splitting categories less substantial than hairs. Perhaps this is an unconstructive use of reason, but it is one to be taken into epistemological account.

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