170. 22 July 2019
You were checking out readership in the Encounters in Mind blog and found a quite recent hit from 03 May 2011 titled "Interpretative images of heart and soul". This is an aside, so to speak, but it gives evidence of your thinking on the heart and soul and mind.I suggested that you find images on the Internet that would represent each. Here is your image response for each. - Amorella
Canterbury Cathedral: Heart
Washington National Cathedral: Soul
One Room School House: Mind
1115 hours. These are rather embarrassing images to me some eight years later. I don't know what else to say.
This is evidence that you were thinking on the heartansoulanmind. Nothing more, nothing less. Post. - Amorella
1131 hours. This may be, Amorella, but to me it shows a grand display of flamboyant arrogance to compare my heart and soul with two of the most beautiful cathedrals I have ever walked through. Both are personal sacred spaces.
Mid-afternoon. You stopped at the Mellow Mushroom on Polaris Blvd. for a mighty meaty pizza and now you are at Heritage Park facing west opposite the picnic shelter. You are awaiting directions for 'Modern Theory of Soul' and Miss Havisham's said interview/discussion on the subject. - Amorella
1522 hours. It is cloudy; much cooler with a slight breeze today with the high at 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The Heat Index was about 105 degrees yesterday and the day before. I am interested in seeing how you are going to tackle this 'Modern Theory', Amorella. However, you are most always consistent; much more consistent than my memory.
This is not a philosophy class, orndorff, though you would rather go into more detail because most any point in esoteric thinking, in metaphysics, is of extreme personal interest to you. - Amorella
1531 hours. You are right, it is of extreme personal interest. My memory immediately jumps back to my twelfth year and my conflict with the Presbyterian church a week before I felt forced to join (via family and community) against my private will, against my heartansoulanmind. It was not just to me that any civil or religious organization could dictate my private spiritual thoughts between G-D and myself. Separation of church and state and me personally, that's the way I took it. I had free will and I almost took it publicly, but did not. I cowered under the pressure. The private shame and self-disgust. I was not being a true Boy Scout, I did not live up to my creed. And, from Socrates' point of view I knew myself but I was not moderate in all things. That's how I remember it.
Indeed, that is pretty much as it was. - Amorella
The private shame was much worse than the self-disgust. You still feel it, Mr. Orndorff, but you have made it public. - mh
Look up 'shame' orndorff and drop it in. - Amorella
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shame - noun - a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior: she was hot with shame | he felt a pang of shame at telling Alice a lie.
• a loss of respect or esteem; dishonor: the incident had brought shame on his family.
• used to reprove someone for something of which they should be ashamed. . .
• a person, action, or situation that brings a loss of respect or honor: ignorance of Latin would be a disgrace and a shame to any public man.
ORIGIN Old English sc(e)amu (noun), sc(e)amian ‘feel shame’, of Germanic origin; to Dutch schamen (verb) and German Scham (noun), schämen(verb).
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ashamed - adjective [predicative] embarrassed or guilty because of one's actions, characteristics, or associations: you should be ashamed of yourself | his clothes and manners made me ashamed of him | [with clause] : she felt ashamed that she had hit him.
• (ashamed to do something) reluctant to do something through fear of embarrassment or humiliation
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Is all this over guilt because of your inaction? - Amorella
1653 hours. I don't know. I don't think so.
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guilt - noun - the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime: it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt. • a feeling of having done wrong orfailed in an obligation [to myself to tell the truth come hell or high water]: he remembered with sudden guilt the letter from his mother that he had not yet read.
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1709 hours. The above all relates to this section (below) from my readings yesterday.
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Philosophy of mind
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The selection below:
Philosophy of mind in the continental tradition
Most of the discussion in this article has focused on one style or tradition of philosophy in modern Western culture, usually called analytic philosophy (sometimes described as Anglo-American philosophy).
Many other schools of thought exist, however, which are sometimes subsumed under the broad (and vague) label of continental philosophy.
In any case, though topics and methods here are numerous, in relation to the philosophy of mind the various schools that fall under this label (phenomenology, existentialism, etc.) can globally be seen to differ from the analytic school in that they focus less on language and logical analysis alone but also take in other forms of understanding human existence and experience.
With reference specifically to the discussion of the mind, this tends to translate into attempts to grasp the concepts of thought and perceptual experience in some sense that does not merely involve the analysis of linguistic forms.
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 and presented again with major revisions in 1787, represents a significant intervention into what will later become known as the philosophy of mind. Kant's first critique is generally recognized as among the most significant works of modern philosophy in the West. Kant is a figure whose influence is marked in both continental and analytic/Anglo-American philosophy. Kant's work develops an in-depth study of transcendental consciousness, or the life of the mind as conceived through universal categories of consciousness.
In Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (frequently translated as Philosophy of Spirit or Geist), the third part of his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences,
Hegel discusses three distinct types of mind: the "subjective mind/spirit", the mind of an individual; the "objective mind/spirit", the mind of society and of the State; and the "Absolute mind/spirit", the position of religion, art, and philosophy.
See also Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit. Nonetheless, Hegel's work differs radically from the style of Anglo-American philosophy of mind.
In 1896, Henri Bergson made in Matter and Memory "Essay on the relation of body and spirit" a forceful case for the ontological difference of body and mind by reducing the problem to the more definite one of memory, thus allowing for a solution built on the empirical test case of aphasia.
In modern times, the two main schools that have developed in response or opposition to this Hegelian tradition are phenomenology and existentialism.
Phenomenology, founded by Edmund Husserl, focuses on the contents of the human mind (see noema) and how processes shape our experiences.
Existentialism, a school of thought founded upon the work of Søren Kierkegaard, focuses on Human predicament and how people deal with the situation of being alive.
Existential-phenomenology represents a major branch of continental philosophy (they are not contradictory), rooted in the work of Husserl but expressed in its fullest forms in the work of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
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Keep the notes above as you set them for your own personal reading. - Amorella
You have a right to your own thoughts on your circumstances, Mr. Orndorff. Now, may we continue? - mh
1741 hours. Yes, of course.
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