Saturday, September 29, 2001

Responses

Steven Van Smith writes in response to Dee Hock's Understanding the Industrial Age:

"I agree with Hock's assessment of reductionist and mechanistic thought. Cartesian duality has made ethics, and philosophy problematic.  The original statement of Descartes was " I doubt, therefore I am".

"The doubt referred to doubting the goodness of God, and the creation.  Solipsistic philosophy does not acknowledge the essential aspect of Community in the "Being" of humanity.  Community is indeed an essential aspect of our personhood.  Trust is the dialogical capacity that enables us to confirm our being in the Ontic, the transcendent revelation of Love and True Being. It  seems that ontology, ethics and moral philosophy then flow from the ontic revelation of " I and Thou".

 

You embody these principles in your living Tim, and I feel true community with you.

Thanks Steven for your kind words and thoughts.