great piece!! what are some ways one can evaluate what stage of the metamorphosis one is at though?? are there specific behaviors/thoughts/frameworks that can indicate being in a certain stage?
I think the hardest part is assessing if you have reverted to being a camel or truly became a child after becoming a lion. My 2 cents is if you feel comfortable in your current state and find yourself in a tribe of people that agree with your premises, I would say that's a pretty good heuristic for assessing that you have reverted to being a camel. However, if even the idea of having premises, a table of values, or a community of likeminded people is alien and disgruntling to you, then you have become a child. And being a camel is a stable position, and staying a child is inherently unstable and requires active effort.
Another reading of the incomplete theorem that resonates with me right now is that there are sets of values I arrive at, hopefully as a child, that I am unable to prove their superiority in meaning. Why do I care about and/or want X? After so many layers of psychoanalysis of self, I arrive at, I don’t know why, I just do. That’s valid and fine. I feel one stage more wise after reading your piece. Thanks!
Desires (not the so-called objective truth/the thing-in-itself) are fundamental to the phenomenological world, through which all values are derived. The gap from "is" to "ought" is inherently unbridgeable, so there truly might not be a way to reconcile them. So maybe we should listen to Hume and preach turning it upside down: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions"
very 2019 burn... both topic and aesthetics! before your time xox
great piece!! what are some ways one can evaluate what stage of the metamorphosis one is at though?? are there specific behaviors/thoughts/frameworks that can indicate being in a certain stage?
I think the hardest part is assessing if you have reverted to being a camel or truly became a child after becoming a lion. My 2 cents is if you feel comfortable in your current state and find yourself in a tribe of people that agree with your premises, I would say that's a pretty good heuristic for assessing that you have reverted to being a camel. However, if even the idea of having premises, a table of values, or a community of likeminded people is alien and disgruntling to you, then you have become a child. And being a camel is a stable position, and staying a child is inherently unstable and requires active effort.
Another reading of the incomplete theorem that resonates with me right now is that there are sets of values I arrive at, hopefully as a child, that I am unable to prove their superiority in meaning. Why do I care about and/or want X? After so many layers of psychoanalysis of self, I arrive at, I don’t know why, I just do. That’s valid and fine. I feel one stage more wise after reading your piece. Thanks!
Desires (not the so-called objective truth/the thing-in-itself) are fundamental to the phenomenological world, through which all values are derived. The gap from "is" to "ought" is inherently unbridgeable, so there truly might not be a way to reconcile them. So maybe we should listen to Hume and preach turning it upside down: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions"