Reflex
knowledge. Just like the mirror reflects itself through the reflected object,
so
Man knows himself through the object known.
Heroic
furore. The six senses without reason are ?non-sense?, reason without them a
castle in the air.
Beyond.
Often we attribute to the words of a speaker meanings that go ?beyond? the
significance given them by the speaker himself.
Involution.
On the circumference of a circle: who believes he is going forward is going
backward instead.
Decadence.
Whatever survives its death becomes a rotting receptacle of flies and disease.
Sentimental
interpretations. Quite often we consider ?altruism? what could very well be
the effect of perfect egotism.
Being
and digesting. The importance of nutrition on psycho-physical qualities: is
sufficiently demonstrated by ants and bees.
Apparent
truth. There are various ways of lying, but most people don?t know but the most
superficial of them: telling their own subjective truth.
After
Socrates. Only by wrongly choosing wrong can Man still choose right.
Free
necessity. Not the individual but individuality is the only evolutionary tool of
life.
The
many and the few. In Man, madness is the rule, rationality the exception.
Virtuous
types. There are various types of virtue: the Renaissance one that stems from
value, and the Christian type from moral vanity.
On
scepticism. If scepticism as an investigative method is the foundation of every
sane progress of knowledge, then, as a doctrine, its amusing end.
Guilt
and sin. Sin is nothing but the psycho-physical discomfort of acting against our
own habit: namely custom. Hence the guilt, unassuaged appetition in the
satisfaction of an habitual scheme.
Psychosophy.
The sensorial unification of the object with the sentient subject: it occurs
according to the laws of mental activity, modified by the sensorial data. A-priori
laws only to the extent that they were a-posteriori
in the phylogenetic interaction of sensitive life on earth.
Altruist?s
egotism. Altruism and egotism are not opposites, as they differ only in the
object of their love: oneself in others or oneself in oneself. (Amour propre)
Apparent
truth. The subjective laws of thinking are objective: to the extent to which the
individual elevates himself to individuality.
Rectify
of names. Nowadays ?good? does not indicate he who is capable but rather he
who is harmless.
Self-control.
If nothing else, Epictetus demonstrates that ?free will? was only the freed
slave?s second psychological nature.
Natural
responses. Ask a servant a question if you want to receive his servile answer.
On
art. Art creates form and informs Man for whom it is created. Truth is, when art
becomes art per se, it is because Man ? from whom it derives and for whom it
is the purpose ? is missing.
Reflex
knowledge. Although mental categories are the thinking subject's laws of
knowledge, this does
not annul their objective truth, since they originate from the interaction of
life with the environment that made that life possible.
Passion
versus passionality. If to the heroic-eros (heroic furore)
pertains creativity, then to the erotic-eros its mystical ecstasy.
Physiognomy
of sin. Guilt and sin are only of those who go against their own habit, namely
custom, and in so doing do not satisfy an habitual appetition of a
psycho-motorial scheme.
Vice
and virtue. Defects in one environment can be the virtues of anotherone.
On
the mysticism of reason. There is passionality, the irrational love that leaves
reason (erotic-eros of mystical ecstasy) and passion, the strong pull towards
what is beautiful that makes look deeper into time and space. (heroic furore).
Free
need. Whether he wants to or not, Man will always act according to his intrinsic
nature.Therefore only he who accepts it will enact himself in freedom.
On
envy. The hope that especially money does not bring happiness is the last hope
of envy.
Psychosophy.
In how much and for how long it guarantees our life in the knowledge of the
object from which it is modified and from which it derives, consists the
objectivity of our law of subjective knowledge.
Psychosophy.
The task of Psychosophy (psychology applied to philosophy) is to investigate how
much human knowledge owes to our mental categories, born from the
phylogenetic interaction of sensitive life on earth.
Vice
and virtue. Social virtues: the civilised end of our weakened vices.
Way
to say. "To think the unthinkable": a chaste expression for thinking
what is thinkable but though shameful.
Physiological
allegory. The physiology of thought is a fact but, without the researcher?s
physiognomic interpretation, remains an allegory.
Prejudice
of evidence. Often it is not so evident, when something is too evident for us,
the evidence that could not be quite so for another.
Shape
and content. A spirit without style is a style without spirit.
Thought
on thought. Just like many forms of plant parasites and diseases are prettier
than the infested plant, so thought could well be the luminous disease of our
mind.
Being
and becoming. Just because what we draw upon is not as volatile as sand, we
expect our deeds* on earth to be
eternal. *(opere
in italian: deeds and works)
Transcendental
evolution. If "Nature does not proceed by bounds", then are all great
men sons of their parents?
Paradoxical
order. Is not the platypus, temporary synchronisation of disorder, the
incarnation of today?s cosmic order?
On
business. Too often and too willingly business ends ? where the penal code
began.
Heroic
eros. Was there ever a man, famous in his field, who was not passionate about it?
On
judgement. He who judged the judge, perhaps judged by taking from others the
same right to judge?
The
many and the few. The line that separates foolhardiness from courage is in most
Men undistinguishable.
Ex-ist*.
For man, apparent materiality exists to the extent that it interacts with our
senses that were formed on it and from which they derive. *(
from latin: coming out, appearing)
Transcendental
ideas. From the distaste for the hominid was born in Man the desire for God and
for the beyond.
Appetitions.
Like hunger and thirst so is nostalgia: the appetition of memory for a part of
us that is no longer.
Being
and becoming. Human beings live in reality, without really knowing exactly what
it is.
"Support".
It is the cross the perch on which ravens croak.
On
the Chinese. After getting to know the Chinese, one understands why Confucius
wrote his moral maxims.
Psychosophy.
The difference in Aristotle?s and Plato?s doctrines does not lie so much in
the their systems (effect) as in their own different nature (cause).
Transcendental
evolution. As life evolved from the saurians to the dinosaurs, from the humanoid
to the human, couldn?t it evolve beyond the human being? Anyhow it remains the
only meta-physics* worthy of being ap-proved, up
to western cosmosophy. *(
In italian:
meta = aim / meta fisica = physical aim / metafisica = metaphysics )
Cause
and effect. Who was most suited to be the first to philosophise about free will
if not a freed slave such as Epictetus?
Geosophy.
... or perhaps the environment influences Man by accentuating his natural
physiognomic taste that made a population choose the land in which to live? This
anyhow is what Herodotus, thousands of years ago, made Cyrus say.
Heroic
furore. Heart and reason or the reason of the heart?
Psychosophy. To explain the world by redoubling it is to redouble the
difficulties; to exchange the rising tension of life, the idea of future being,
in order not to be "in the beyond".
Over look. Sometime things are so "obvious" to be
obviously overlooked with wrong conclusions and no answer given.
Cultural
meta-physics. Since the times of late Romantic Christian trinkets onwards (unlike
the Graeco-Roman times and the Renaissance when physical beauty was an integral
part and aim of true cultural meta-physics*), for us culture has become
synonymous of an infinite and pedantic bore, dead and detached from real life
collecting dust in the archives, better represented by the consumptive Christian
saint: the Philistine of all time. A bourgeois clich? typical of Aristotelian
ethics, where only non-vulgarity should serve as an aesthetic measure. *(
In italian:
meta = aim / meta fisica = physical aim / metafisica = metaphysics )
Knowledge
of ignorance. Who knows whether what we know - physiognomic viewpoint of cosmic
law ? is in the best of cases just a more or less true hypothesis related to
the observer who more or less identifies the cosmic actuality itself? If than,what
has just been hypothesised, were not actually just another hypothesis ? to the
reader, and to our descendants, the likely answer.
