Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00822)

"Today most philosophers find only discouragement in the recognition that all statements and logical inferences are conditioned by someone's situation, by the biases of culture and social class, usually summed up as "history and language." Wittgenstein, Dilthey, and Heidegger have powerfully shown that our subjective experiences are not just inner reactions; they are our interactions in life and situations. They are immediate interactional meanings. This brings a vast change. It eliminates the old model of the five senses and interpretation." 



"Philosophy can reopen the old assumptions and conceptual models if we think with our more intricate experiencing as well as with logic. We can think everything more truly if we think it philosophically, that is with attention to how we think it, and with the critical understanding that no concept, rule, or distinction ever equals experiencing, -- but may carry it forward. Our more intricate experiencing is not thereby replaced. It is always still there and open to being carried forward in new ways, but never arbitrarily, always only in quite special and precise ways." 

Above two excerpts from:

Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning

Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D.

Preface To The Paper Edition, 1997



If anyone has any further interest in this material the complete preface by Dr. Gendlin is available here:

http://www.focusing.org/ecmpreface.html



regards,

bill









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