Theological Science, Dialectical Thinking, and Thinking With Metaphors, II
On p. 122 of ‘The First Scientific Proof of God,’ one will find writings on Nicholas of C
usa. The book by Cusa on ‘The Layman: About Mind’ should be of interest to a person who is interested in dialectical thinking. In this book, Cusa teaches that every human being, in any walk of life, has a special path of knowing the world. So, a philosopher, a scientist, a mathematician, a theologian, etc. has no better way of knowing the world than a poet, a housewife, a farmer, an auto mechanic, etc.
If Cusa was living today, he would tell us that Nobel Prizes are arbitrary and are focused primarily on poor fields of thought on reductionism. These fields of though do not realize that the world cannot be reduced to a single mathematics statement or a physical particle. Nor can an economist reduce an economy to money. Further, health cannot be reduced to a pile of pills; life cannot be reduced to a single death; peace cannot be reduced by free trade; a scripture cannot be reduced to perfect religion.. Such prizes would be based on the belief that the mind is an epiphenomenon of the brain. The alternative is the mind viewed as a thing-in-itself.
In his book on lay persons, Cusa says that mind is an image of an eternal enfolding in God. Thus, mind is immortal and imperishable. It is without concepts until it is embodied, becomes a soul, and performs a function based on a fundamental principle. As a soul, mind can act and measure things by conceiving and understanding by constructing notions with symbols. The human mind thus becomes an organization of symbols that reflect realities of the world. Since a fundamental principle differs from person to person, all people in the world cannot be reduced to a single intellect. Thus, merging US people in into Union cannot be divided precisely, as if people were mechanical things.
Different minds can produce undesirable events when the minds of people are not organized properly. For example, when a group of politicians creates a socialistic nation (e.g., Russia) and another group of politicians creates a democratic nation (e.g., USA), both groups believe that a socialistic nation and democratic nation cannot coexist. They create this false belief by thinking logically. Logical thought views these two nations as ‘political opposites.’ Unless both groups of politicians fill the ‘middle region’ of these political opposites with dialectical metaphors, irrational wars can develop.
In the USA, the two major parties also use logical thinking by creating the opposing concepts, ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative.’ Without a middle region filled with metaphors, these two major parties slow the progress of the USA. To overcome logical thinking, the members of both parties must become dialecticians.
As seen, logical thinking creates criminals and white collar criminals. The cure to all crime is dialectical thinking.
usa. The book by Cusa on ‘The Layman: About Mind’ should be of interest to a person who is interested in dialectical thinking. In this book, Cusa teaches that every human being, in any walk of life, has a special path of knowing the world. So, a philosopher, a scientist, a mathematician, a theologian, etc. has no better way of knowing the world than a poet, a housewife, a farmer, an auto mechanic, etc.If Cusa was living today, he would tell us that Nobel Prizes are arbitrary and are focused primarily on poor fields of thought on reductionism. These fields of though do not realize that the world cannot be reduced to a single mathematics statement or a physical particle. Nor can an economist reduce an economy to money. Further, health cannot be reduced to a pile of pills; life cannot be reduced to a single death; peace cannot be reduced by free trade; a scripture cannot be reduced to perfect religion.. Such prizes would be based on the belief that the mind is an epiphenomenon of the brain. The alternative is the mind viewed as a thing-in-itself.
In his book on lay persons, Cusa says that mind is an image of an eternal enfolding in God. Thus, mind is immortal and imperishable. It is without concepts until it is embodied, becomes a soul, and performs a function based on a fundamental principle. As a soul, mind can act and measure things by conceiving and understanding by constructing notions with symbols. The human mind thus becomes an organization of symbols that reflect realities of the world. Since a fundamental principle differs from person to person, all people in the world cannot be reduced to a single intellect. Thus, merging US people in into Union cannot be divided precisely, as if people were mechanical things.
Different minds can produce undesirable events when the minds of people are not organized properly. For example, when a group of politicians creates a socialistic nation (e.g., Russia) and another group of politicians creates a democratic nation (e.g., USA), both groups believe that a socialistic nation and democratic nation cannot coexist. They create this false belief by thinking logically. Logical thought views these two nations as ‘political opposites.’ Unless both groups of politicians fill the ‘middle region’ of these political opposites with dialectical metaphors, irrational wars can develop.
In the USA, the two major parties also use logical thinking by creating the opposing concepts, ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative.’ Without a middle region filled with metaphors, these two major parties slow the progress of the USA. To overcome logical thinking, the members of both parties must become dialecticians.
As seen, logical thinking creates criminals and white collar criminals. The cure to all crime is dialectical thinking.
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