next up previous
Next: Tao Stoic 213 Up: Tao Stoics Late Twentieth Previous: Tao Stoic 211


Tao Stoic 212

"Master, how is it that such an excellent mondial sociologist as H.G.Wells made such a confusion of determining the intelligence of primitive ancestors? He does not seem to grasp the fact that the cracking of a nut with a stone is purely animal, but the chipping of a stone into a hand-tool is purely intelligence, so that the two are incommensurate. Like other archeologists he takes skull volume or speech-organs as a criterion for intelligence."

"It is all because of a scientific arrest in the MindSciences, dating back to before Homer (Hesiod, Herodotus). We here follow Zeno's: 'That what is active / that what is acted upon' to its logical conclusion, but more important, we follow Galenius' strict division in vegetative-, animal-, and Intelligent ideation to its practical end. Hence, for us, there always are True Words and discussions of Mind, with clear conceptions of the three incommensurates. We do what real scientists ought to do always, i.e. Think Free, Define (systematise) and check with Reality. The scientific arrest was caused by a lack of these three criteria, hence, confusion. We, therefore, read Confucius, Mencius, the Taoists, Stoics etc. with completely different eyes, Mind-scientific eyes."


next up previous
Next: Tao Stoic 213 Up: Tao Stoics Late Twentieth Previous: Tao Stoic 211
Ven 2005-01-24