Hierarchy Index Cards - A
Card-A-14-1 DEH: “This is rather wonderful discovery. — A [Aristotle] is right!”
DEH: …the origin of all movement is incongruity [something that is not in the right place]
There are so many deep ideas in these cards!
Quotes Farrington (Greek science): “Now Anaxagoras has said that it is the possession of hands that has made man the most intelligent of the animals. The probability is that it was because he was the most intelligent that he got hands. For hands are a tool, and nature, like an intelligent man, always distributes tools to those that can use them. The proper thing is to give a genuine flute-player a flute rather than to give a man who happens to have a flute the skill to play… “ DEH: So sensible and obvious, yet we are blind to it!
DEH gives the other side of the picture as well:
Working out that the past cause is only half the story, and that the future goal is the other. DH: “We have become saturated with half the story — of evolution from below.” Teleology.
Card-A-14-05
DEH summarising Boodin: “To A [Aristotle] we owe the supreme insight that if there is to be advance to higher levels, those levels must exist.”
DEH: “But the whole question of end causes must be studied in further details.”
Card-A-14-10. DEH: “I return to a world picture in which, like Aristotle’s there is a definite correspondence between spatial levels & levels of value (& levels of reality)…”
Card-A-14-15 DEH “…the whole question of end causes must be studied in further detail.”
Card-A-14-18: “DEH The higher the man the more planned his future. That is, the more he overcomes time. For the end (5) is what determines the means (1) which is now passing over into the will…when a man really decides on the end [5] he does so in the future. His decision, or rather his plan, is perception in the future. When his plan miscarries he has mis-perceived the future.”
Card-A-14-18 Diagram
Card-A-14-19: “Seership advances with individuality… To forsee your eventual unity in God is to conquer time utterly, while the vision lasts, & to the degree that it is vivid.”
Index Card A-14
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