(Note sit back bare w/ it for a moment; you'll be glad you did).
William Blake warned his contemporaries against the dangers of the 'single vision,'of the reductive worldview, originated in 'Newton's sleep.
First lets start w/ the above link about halfway down:
Especially, "Strategies to counteract naïve belief" and "The empirical evidence".
Take a moment to let that sink in, then get ready to have your head caved in, in a good way:Aristotle's Law of Identity Though these links may seem like a beating or pulling your lip over your skull, there are some powerful messages here.
Finally, one my favorite Enlightenment-fetishizing political philosopher was Mary Wollstonecraft. She was not a very good novelist, but she was a great rhetoritician.
There will be a quiz, (j/k)but, comments are welcome ;-) (Tell me what you got out of this exercize).
Now, In a complete reversal, Robert Anton Wilson says, "we must break out of the Aristotle straight jacket of black/white, up/down, binary logic".
Politics =2-dimensonal "mind" [[foward/back. up/down]
Art & science =multidimenssional "mind"
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
- Aristotle
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