Another account comes from Rene´Dubos' discussion of entheos and enthusiasm
in his book, "A God Within."
He tells us that enthusiasm in the original Greek sense implied "divine
madness, the mania that Socrates regarded as the mainspring of all
worthwhile creations."
And Plato in the Phaedrus, "In reality the greatest of blessings come to us
through madness, when it is sent as a gift of the godsŠ." and "madnessŠis
superior to sanity, which is of human origin."
And Rene´Decartes' account of the origin of his famous method, "X novembris
1619, cum plenus forem Enthousiasmo, et mirabilis scientiae fundamenta
reperirem." (10 November 1619, when I was full of enthusiasm, and I
discovered the fundamental principles of a wonderful knowledge.
Entheos, a god within, and enthusiasm, or what we might in more modern terms
think of as subconscious inspiration.
Best to all,
Jerry
On 3/10/14 8:56 AM, "CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> there is a connection that Heidegger develops between theoria and the gaze of
> the gods. thea harao means the goddess gazing back at us, whist we gaze back
> at the gods. for him it appears that theorizing is likened to the gazing back
> of the gods, partly the gods autonomous initiation, and not shall we say
> contingent or dependent on our gazing. the gazing by the gods back us us, to
> reveal their wisdom to us, is not something we cann force our of them, but
> given on the terms set by the gods. hence you can gaze at them all you want
> and til the cows come home but if they do not gaze back at you, you will go
> home foolish.
>
> heidegger suggests that our theorizing is like that, and more so unlike the
> traditional Aristotle, theoria is achieved through teche, through skillful
> doing. anyway this seems to be how dreyfus reads H
>
> whatever we think of Heidegger, i think he is correct when he worries about
> how research becomes viokent when the researcher thinks that with a certain
> method he can access the most important truths. there is a sense that the
> truth is given as it gives, and is hence to borrow marion, anamorphic.
> one needs to be willing to constantlt recalibrate, like a person trying to see
> a monet, to find that distance where the paint patches mix, in order for that
> important insight to show, to display.
>
> design is a litle like that, and in this way design is a n interesting way of
> reserching, not to collect data which one already has in mind, but a kind of
> search for what one cannot fully grAsp and foresee. that searching, thta
> sketching, that imagination, etc etc, is part of our ongoing calibration, our
> pious acquiescing to the gods,s terms, gos who give as they wish to give, and
> not as we wish them to give. design is, to borrow hayek, very different from
> a certesianism, a kind of cartesian constructivism, against the decsares who
> wants truth to be shown according to his terms and no other way
>
> jude
>
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> research in Design [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith Russell
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> Dear Ken
>
> Could you provide a trail for the connections between łtheory˛ and łgod˛?
>
> Cheers
>
> keith
>
> On 10/03/2014 9:28 am, "Ken Friedman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Before closing, I should acknowledge that Klaus doesnąt use the term
>> łtheory.˛ The term łtheory˛ originated in Greek, where the word łtheoria˛
>> is linked to roots for the word łGod,˛ along with such words as
>> łtheology,˛ and łenthusiasm.˛ Klaus feels that the term implies a
>> godąs-eye view that suggests that we exist outside our theories, while he
>> argues that we generate theories from within language and within human
>> perspectives. I agree that human beings generate theories from within
>> language and within human perspectives, but I propose that the distant
>> etymological roots of the word łtheory˛ do not require us to take on the
>> implications of Greek religious belief. In this sense, I argue that a
>> theory is a model, and I propose that we are the creators of our models.
>> The explicit relation between those models and that which we attempt to
>> represent with models (or theories) is the subject of a large
>> conversation.
>>
>
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