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>From: strait@xxxxxxxxxxxx (nathan)
>Subject: mysticism and demystification
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>charles gavette wrote:
>
>> This is at heart the very same problem addressed by all philosophies
>>and all religions; and for the discussion at hand, this aptly poses
the
>>question of chaos and order, or the meaning of the Tao, for the early
>>Taoist texts.
>> The oddity of early Taoist thought was its strange solicitude for
>>chaos, its mystically austere passion for confusion.
>
>gilles deleuze wrote:
>
>"the speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as
>naturalism coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing
the
>illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the
>theological-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed. to the
question
>'what is the use of philosophy?' the answer must be: what other object
>would have an interest in holding forth the image of a free person, and
in
>denouncing all of the forces which need myth and a troubled spirit in
order
>to establish their power? ... active gods are the myth of religion, as
>destiny is the myth of a false physics, and being, the one and the
whole
>are the myth of a false philosophy totally saturated by theology. never
has
>the enterprise of demystification been carried further ... lucretius
>established for a long time to come the implications of naturalism: the
>positivity of nature; naturalism as the philosophy of affirmation;
>pluralism linked with multiple affirmation; sensualism connected with
the
>joy of the diverse; and the practical critique of all mystifications."
(the
>logic of sense, 278-279)
>
>
>..................................
>
>nathan strait, bucknell university
>associative professor of chaosophy
>
http://coral.bucknell.edu/~strait/
>
>
This is great stuff. Thanks, Nathan
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