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The contrast between Aristotelian and early Daoist thinking on this point has been studied by Ellen Chen. Aristotelian thinking, she proposes, endorses a ‘form motive’: ‘By becoming a fixed form immune to change and dissolution, finite individuals hope to escape swallowing by the Infinite.’11 Putting it less extremely, the individual driven by the
... See moreAlexander Douglas • Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
Hillman argued that our individuality and purpose are innate, not contingent. The defining agency behind this innateness is the Daimon, which orients our lives mainly through “hints, intuitions, whispers, and the sudden urges and oddities that disturb your life and that we continue to call symptoms” (The Soul’s Code, Bantam Books, 1996, page 10).
Bernardo Kastrup • The Daimon and the Soul of the West
All things originate from one another, and vanish into one another according to necessity; they give to each other justice and recompense for injustice in conformity with the order of Time.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
What happens in the collective is also taking place within us.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Heraclitus’ and Hegel’s radical concept of life as a process and not as a substance is paralleled in the Eastern world by the philosophy of the Buddha. There is no room in Buddhist thought for the concept of any enduring permanent substance, neither things nor the self. Nothing is real but processes.3 Contemporary scientific thought has brought
... See moreErich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
Plato and Aristotle agree that Heraclitus taught that “nothing ever is, everything is becoming” (Plato), and that “nothing steadfastly is” (Aristotle).
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
But his successor Hume, and most empirical psychologists after him, have denied the soul, save as the name for verifiable cohesions in our inner life. They redescend into the stream of experience with it, and cash it into so much small-change value in the way of 'ideas' and their peculiar connexions with each other. As I said of Berkeley's matter,
... See moreWilliam James • The Collected Works of William James
If we are nothing but what we think about, then no predefined ‘inner nature’ can hold us back. We are protean. He gave this idea a Sartrean makeover in a short essay which he began writing in Berlin, but published only in 1939: ‘A Fundamental Idea of Husserl’s Phenomenology: Intentionality’.