Beaurovariance and Aristotle

We are born into a fully formed world with all its history and processes. We in turn develop within this world. We acquire language, definitions, develop physically, and gain all our prejudices and biases. Some look back to an origin, or even a first philosophy and will soon come to realize that there are many. Our histories are wide and diverse, and often hidden or unknown, only told by consumer products which keep the creator behind a corporate veil. This is the same phenomena of concealment that occurs when we speak tales of great men of history. Those who built the pyramids have been lost to history, namelost laborers who we name a god king to assign cause and responsibility to. We find ourselves in a duality of the individualism of authoritarianism in contrast to the actual act of the collective actions which built history that is recorded in the structure of the pyramids. Every concept we assign to phenomena rose from human imagination, as an attempt to articulate, contain or measure. The form of communication bears the burden of the subjectivity of the articulator. 

There are things we know individually, that which a single instance of mind contains. There are things we collectively have come to know, that which the shared mind processes contains that may be available to us to know. There are things which are not yet known that can be known. Aristotle realized that we are limited by our sense perception in our knowing (His emphasis was on sight). In this we ask is there that which because of the limitation of our biological senses can not be known? Often we find a god or spirituality within this.

Science is the study of the repeatable. Magic is the study of the unrepeatable. The social act of science is verification. Magic thus has no verification. For, when it does it reterritorializes and finds its way into science. In this definition we see that perhaps there is more magic than science in subjective experiences of the world. Then there is the idea of “truth” which necessitates the existence of a truth if it is to truly be what the very definition assumes it to be. Truth relies upon objectivity,  yet is limited to subjective minds, and in praxis finds its claim in intersubjectivity. 

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Plato and the Golden Man

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Plato and the Golden Man
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Today we take a trip back in time to visit Plato and Aristotle and find some things that might just be relevant to our world today.

How To Make A Human Being

People are created over time though social means. The act of making other people in and of itself is a social interaction. From conception to death, a human being is nothing without the social world around them. To see a ‘natural person’ existing outside of social influence seems an impossible task. To attempt to create the ‘natural person’ without social influence would be an unethical experiment to attempt to undertake. Let us say one did attempt this experiment. We would have to ignore the social act of creating a person, because to have a human being other people must fertilize an egg, carry it to term and deliver the child. This child is now taken and placed in an environment that would nurture the natural person without social influence, what is this? Oxana Malaya, a young girl raised by dogs was socialized by the dogs which raised her. Her behavior was formed by the socialization with animals, she barked, howled and crawled on all fours. A person who might survive the wild would need assistance from birth, and if in the wild, as we see, would simply be socialized and created by the animals which enabled the survival of the child.

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