Friday, August 22, 2008

2. On the starting point of Philosophy of the One.

The problem is not whether to begin with experience but where to begin from the wide array of choices.

We can begin with the individuality of existents, or with their plurality. We can consider their operations or their activities. For modern science, we can focus on either structure or composition.

But wherever we choose to start, we must never forget that the fundamental datum of experience should be the basis of all knowledge. This started with the Greek philosophers (Plato and Aristotle), gradually lost by the time of Descartes - mathematician that he was - and then, reinstalled when Locke came. After Locke, Hume retorts while science was having the time of its life with Newton and the others. Now, of course, Kant, in order to dispel Hume's skepticism employed a priori reasoning, which may have been friendlier to dogma and orthodox "truths", but later yielded to idealism. Kant wrote the preface of the Matrix trilogy. Sartre and the existentialists went on with chapter one.

For our part, we will start with the analysis on the problem change, as how classical philosophy started.


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