In following the silver thread of this study, we have compassed many themes including epistemology, consciousness and its evolution, the scientific method, its history and possibilities for its future development. Most fundamentally, however, our inquiry stems from the primordial impulse and Holy Grail of philosophy as, Aristotle expressed it in the first line of Metaphysics:…
Author: Max Leyf
On Truth (4): Scientia & Sapientia, and the Causes of Post-Truth
“What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.” —Bertrand Russell Nihil enim scitur nisi verum, quod cum entit convertitur. “Nothing is known except truth, which is the same as being.” —Thomas Aquinas In the last chapter of this exploration, we suggested that post-truth is the same as post-meaning. In other words, the truth of things is their meaning. From this, it follows…
On Truth (3): Nietzsche, Plato, Cartesius, Kant
Both in the introduction of this theme and the introduction to the dissertation itself, we introduced the subject of truth, or lack thereof. We considered, in the former case, truth in respect to its etymological relation to “tree,” and explored the symbolic resonance between these two concepts. We concluded that, among myriad other connections that…
On Truth (2): Steiner & Barfield
The following is a draft-excerpt from a dissertation that the editor of Theoria-press is presently engaged in writing for a doctoral degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Comments welcome. The former earned his M.A. in the same program in May of 2017, of which the culminating project was this…
On Truth (1): Introduction, Mythos, Lógos
The following is a draft-excerpt from a dissertation that the editor of Theoria-press is presently engaged in writing for a doctoral degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Comments welcome. The former earned his M.A. in the same program in May of 2017, of which the culminating project was this…
Two Sonnets: to Sadness
The trees aloft their weighty boughs scarce-hold Each dejected leaf hangs pond’rous, low With heaviness but one who’s sad can know Whose new anticipation is grown old Whose onetime glowing hope is waned and cold Whose soul forsakes the temperate ebb and flow Of reasons, seasons, feelings to and fro The solemn sky itself with…
Sonnet, on ‘L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle’
Out of the starless uncreated night The universe began in wonder In arching peals of cosmic thunder And skipping scintillae of violet light Forever in her joy I take delight! She weaves my feelings, over under From forgetfulness, her life to sunder That we may overcome time’s splintering plight For fate now spins us twain…
Owen Barfield (3): Final Participation
The following is a draft-excerpt from a dissertation that the editor of Theoria-press is presently engaged in writing for a doctoral degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Comments welcome. The former earned his M.A. in the same program in May of 2017, of which the culminating project was this presentation. -4-…
Owen Barfield (2): Figuration, Alpha-Thinking, & Beta-Thinking
The following is a draft-excerpt from a dissertation that the editor of Theoria-press is presently engaged in writing for a doctoral degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The former earned his M.A. in the same program in May of 2017, of which the culminating project was this presentation. -3- Figuration,…
Owen Barfield (1): Participation and its Evolution
The following is a draft-excerpt from a dissertation that the editor of Theoria-press is presently engaged in writing for a doctoral degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, & Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Comments welcome. The former earned his M.A. in the same program in May of 2017, of which the culminating project was this…
