Dear Alon,
I very much like this emphasis on the artistic and lyrical as a vital
inclusion of any deep enquiry into the fundamental nature of human life,
taking you beyond the realm of detached objectivism. I feel that the story
of how you are transforming your originally purely analytical perspectives
by this means exemplifies the transition from fixed to living 'standards of
judgement' and could provide the basis for a highly creative and original
thesis. I might liken this to 'ice melting through becoming receptive to
warmth', 'salt dissolving into solution through exposure to water' and a
'seed germinating into a flower'. There is this vital transition from the
crystalline or latent form to expansive fluid form, a transition which is
not the 'annihilation' that positivistic thinkers may fear. In terms of
'inclusionality', I see this transformation as arising most fundamentally
from the dynamic embodiment of space as 'immaterial presence', opening the
door to the creative possibility of unfixed, non-Euclidean geometry.
Warmest
Alan
--On 13 December 2006 14:49 +0000 Alon Serper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I was watching Federico Fellini's 'La Strada' yesterday: An incredible,
> classic, poetic and artistic film but not so much educational or
> epistemological with no clear message and insight, other than the usual
> Fellinian anti Church messages. And certainly not analysis. It is full
> of artistic symbols (e.g., sea).
>
> I am using it to reflect on the difference between poetic and artistic
> and epistemological, phenomenological, educational and analytical that
> uses poetry and art.
>
> I have been drawn to art in my heuristics of human existence so as to
> analyse and delve inside it as an educational exercise and rebelled
> against my original training that told me to leave the poetic and
> artistic for the analytic, empirical and scientific.
>
> I transformed myself from being a very cold, impersonal scientist to an
> artist of human existence. I am overwhelmed this transformation.
>
> My intentions are still educational and epistemological though as a
> psychologist and the constructor of my heuristics of human existence. Alon
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