Status Updates From An Introduction to Metaphysics

End of the first part. Thought that's something worth pointing out.

"Either there is no philosophy possible, and all knowledge of things is a practical knowledge aimed at the profit to be drawn from them, or else philosophy consists in placing oneself within the object itself by an effort of intuition." ~which summarizes precisely the topic discoursed in this book.

"To these detached psychical states, to these shadows of the ego, the sum of which was for the empiricists the equivalent of the self, rationalism, in order to reconstitute personality, adds something still more unreal, the void in which these shadows move - a place for shadows, one might say." This can't transfer the whole topic, but Descartes said similarly that scientists are seeking the dark to avoid refutation.

All my life I spent working on my logical faculties, to improve them and use them on life. I had somewhat understood the concept of wisdom and intuition, I thought. But after a few pages into this Introduction, I find the failings of pure logic and analysis revealed, and the system and skill of intuition much more comprehensible. Obviously one will gain so much more from either, if intuition and logic work together.

Science has been mistaken as the origin of the processes it employs because intuition, once attained, lasts but for a moment and must find a mode of expression and of application which conforms to our practical habits of thought. This is why the logical equipment of science is taken for science itself, forgetting the metaphysical intuition from which all the rest has sprung; engendering sciences' "relativity."

Philosophical empiricism is born of a confusion between the point of view of intuition and that of analysis. Seeking for the original in the translation, where naturally it cannot be, it denies the existence of the original on the ground that it's not found in the translation. It leads of necessity to negations.

this makes me want to scratch my eyes out, it's so abstract...very nice, love it.

i wanna sit in a corner and ugly cry for not reading Bergson early.