Hi Peter
What I am saying is that the study, understanding and conception of human
life and subject must include the elements of quality of life and being in
terms of gratification and well-being and I take this to be development and
moving forward to betterment.
In the past couple of years I am undergoing transformation in the sense
that I now believe the clinical intentionality of increasing well-being and
reduction of malaise should be the intended goal of empirical, academic research
into human beings.
I now see everything, including empirical research, as a search, planning
and carrying out of means to attain personal gratification, well-being, good/improved
life quality for the conductor of the act. I see this as a contribution
to a field and to the act of becoming a contributing agent. So, to say this
is being egocentrics and radical individualism is oversimplification.
Before, I thought that clinical and empirical should be discrete and separated.
Still, this involves, evaluative systematisation and clear and consistent
methodology, or heuristics.
Anyway, I am reflectively grounding my work in its being contributing and
gratifying for myself and thus, in itself, an illustration of my heuristics.
Alon
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:42:15 +0100
>Reply-To: Peter Mellett <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Peter Mellett <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: relevant laing on scientific evaluation
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>
>Alon -
>Your quote from Laing
>
>> if this I that is the wherewith and whereby is not anything that I know,
>> then it is no thing - nothing.
>
>reminds me of e e cummings:
>
>when god decided to invent
>everything he took one
>breath bigger than a circustent
>and everything began
>
>when man determined to destroy
>himself he picked the was
>of shall and finding only why
>smashed it into because
>
>. . . which fits I think with your later posting that essentially asks
>what, after all the words, we intend to DO (and with which I heartily
>agree).
>
>- Peter
>
>
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