SCIENCE,
PHILOSOPHY &
EMANCIPATION
A Trialogical
Approximation
By Franz
J. T. Lee
Volume One
PANDEMONIUM
BOOKS
& PUBLICATIONS.
Mérida, Venezuela, 2003.
© 2003 Franz J. T. Lee All Rights Reserved.
INDEX
CONTENTS:
VOLUME ONE
A
Simple
Approximation
A General Introduction
Many
of us do not like to think, to theorize, to philosophize, would find
this simply a waste of precious time. And yet, we will find no other
way of
liberating, of emancipating ourselves, unless we begin to learn to act,
to think and to excel, of, by and for ourselves. Those who are free
already,
are living in a free opulent society, of course, have no problem
whatsoever
anymore. Nonetheless, as we know, billions do not enjoy this capitalist
privilege, to them this opus is dedicated.
To learn to act, to think and to excel, of, by and for ourselves, imply
that WE do these things ourselves. Until now mainly our official
actors, thinkers,
teachers, professors and priests have taught us how to develop our
human
faculties, and even they themselves were taught by others, ad
infinitum.
Definitely, we also know that the ruling ideas of any epoch have always
been the ruling ideas of the
respective ruling classes. Across the millennia official science,
philosophy and theology served the ruling class interests of the
respective ruling mode of production.
Certainly, all these presuppose other tools of communication, of
expression, of incision and precision, however, for the time being, we
will use known words, language, symbols, sounds, colours, etc. In this
book, what painstakingly has to be understood, be grasped, be excelled,
are our very own Acts, Thoughts and Sapience, and not that what is
commonly understood by them; in general, we will try to stay as close
as possible to the common meanings of current words and concepts,
however, our trialogics necessarily will express very intricate
formulations and multi-relations, that is, will connote our own
specific trialogical interpretations. Thus, it is not necessary to
consult any dictionary, text-book or philosophic genius in order to
understand our science and philosophy. Just as reality, the truth,
flows, ever-flows and over-flows, so our knowledge intensifies,
expands, grows, matures and transcends.
It is of great importance that the reader, the student, the
philosopher, take note of these fertile extras; they form important
emancipatory elements of our Science, Philosophy and Wisdom. Where
necessary we will formulate
new words, our own concepts, e.g., like trifference, transjective,
percept,
transcept, diagory, triagory, mension, unimension, trialogics, etc. For
the
first time, we act, we think, we excel, hence, we decide what is to be
understood
by any word or concept: this is our authenticity, originality and novum.
Hence,
the
open-minded
student should follow very
carefully our logic, our
trialogics,
our multi-logics.
One of
the existential conditions, the conditio sine qua non to create
ideas - not words without any ontic content - to formulate
the three "T's", for thinking, thought, and theory, is philosophy.
To
be
able
to understand ideas, thought and theory, one has to
be a philosopher, that is, on any level, degree or mension of
human
endeavours. Children across the globe are excellent philosophers. If we
do not even understand our very own method in our own "madness", then,
how could we know what we are doing, thinking and surpassing? How could
we understand others, anything for that matter?
As a simple guide towards philosophic and emancipatory understanding,
we are publishing this introductory philosophic treatise. It reflects
serious food for thought, is by no means perfect or absolute; as stated
above, permanently
its contents,
its truth and beauty lovingly
will flow, ever-flow, over-flow. Here we cannot deal fully with the
intricate
machinations of the globalized Mental Holocaust, of mind and thought
control,
of human alienation, that have been launched since millennia, as religion, ideology and
disinformation; this would presuppose the intelligent creativity of a
huge global collective of the best emancipatory brains of
mankind, but, because we do not have any favourable
circumstances, no alternative, valiantly we ourselves, with all our
human disabilities and disadvantages, must commence, somehow,
somewhere. The very earthly essence and existence of the human species,
action, thinking and thought, are currently at stake. New acts
necessitate
new thoughts, and new thoughts generate original actions. What is new
is
something that has never been done or thought before, and that will not
be
repeated anymore.
The birth pangs of the trialogical cosmovision is what is in the air,
and it is surely not meant to torture, terrify or horrify anybody. It
is just a simple, general, tender approach, an exotic, erotic
práxico-theoretical approximation towards a beautiful, true and
loving Science a n d Philosophy AND
Emancipation, generated by our transitional era, by our
epoch-making solar and galactic realities. On this daring voyage
towards the perilous, unknown aurora, towards other creative modes of
transcendence, there are no super-strings attached; consequently,
without any hurt heart feelings, anybody who is not interested, cannot
accompany us, could capitulate right now already. The sojourn towards
other spheres and worlds is gratis, costs nothing. In fact, we should
excel the geo- and heliocentric -- the unilateral Above, Here, Below,
the formal Macro, Meso and Micro -- cosmovisions, and consider a myriad
of other logical and
non-logical approaches.
Certain truths are definite, in global fascism, to survive, to survey
"awestruck", to purview "shock and awe", to escape the plutonium
depleted cluster-bombs, we have to be adamant, audacious and excellent.
In defence, in self-defence, we have to develop our own
"full-spectrum-emancipation", our own Invisible, Invulnerable,
Invincible Emancipatory Weapons. We have to create the New, the
Original, the Authentic, the Superb, in a transvolutionary way, as the
world, especially Corporate Capitalism, has never seen them, and will
never ever see them again.
Firstly,
what's the reason to accomplish all these? Obviously, if we do not know
anything about each other's science and philosophy, how will we relate,
communicate, discuss and debate with each other? How would we
inter-relate our opinions about world events, terrorism, fascism,
globalization? Our discussions would just resemble the non-related
world news reports on CNN. Otherwise, they will just reflect an
intellectual hick-hack, a mental brawl, to prove our own ossified
points, a display of how perfectly "right" and "correct" our individual
brilliant views are; it would be an eternal, dualistic, formal-logical
rigmarole, but will not result in a fructiferous world outlook, in a
capitalist exodus at all.
To start, secondly, let us elucidate very briefly the raison
d'être of our scientific, philosophy endeavours. Why a New
Science and Philosophy? Are the "old" ones not answering all possible
universal questions? Yes, they do. We accept, affirm, identify their
discoveries and brilliance; consciously and conscientiously, we study
their illustrious ideas, theories, knowledge and wisdom, how little
they talk about the billions of pauperized masses; also, we register
their accumulated wealth, technology, profits
and capital. They express our human roots, they form our radix,
they
determine our radical essence and existence, they exform us how to
eradicate
the very "root of all evil", contemporary global fascism.
Furthermore,
they inform us about the "Discovery of America", Pearl Harbour, about
the
"Twin Towers", about HAARP, about Mkultra, the "Manchurian Candidate",
the
Philadelphia Experiments, the Pentagon Aliens, the "Super-String
Theories",
ELF and Scalar Waves, Scramjets, etc.
But, even they
are renewing, renovating, refreshing themselves, have experienced - and
still do -- a Renaissance, Reformation, Revolution and Globalization.
However, by affirming all these, we still are not yet negating their
invaluable findings, that express and reflect realities, the global
reality, past, present and future. With an open mind, with scholarly
humility and intellectual nobility, we learn, study and investigate
them. We learn to know them, including all their relations and
non-relations. This is our "point of departure",
but we are not blinded, blind-folded, are not myopic about their
eternal,
absolute "truths".
We notice that
this world, in which we live and die, is basically a two-sided universe
("A", "Non-A"). It is only "A, and is "A" forever more. This universe
of the fatherland, cum grano salis, is one simple postulate; it
has two sides, but it abhors contradictions, relations. It barely can
relate its own, two inner, internal parts, this would be a
contradiction ("A a n d Non-A"). It basically is dancing a
two-by-two dualistic tango; the dancers, "A" and "Non-A", barely touch
each other. Universal Man tries to solve, to resolve all
contradictions, to change the world into itself, into "A". Motion,
progress, development are the spatial auto-productions and temporal
self-reflections of its very own inner "Non-A", that "A" itself, by all
Maquiavellian means and Orwellian ends, again wants to reduce to its
Unity, to its Rest, to its Peace, to its Rest In Peace.
Sapiently,
across the millennia ruling class, elitist Man has developed his own
Science
and Philosophy. He operates with mental or intellectual concepts like
God,
Spirit, Essence, Being, Society, Theology, Religion, Meditation,
Philosophy,
Idea, Idea of the Idea, Form, Idealism, Theory, Subject, Good, Quality,
Peace, Right, Truth, Hope, Charity, White, Civilized, Developed,
Capitalism,
Reason, Rich, etc. -- all qualities of the one and only universal
postulate,
of "A", of its "Affirmation", of its Unomnia, of its Hen Kai Pan.
Reluctantly,
he developed, produces and will reproduce terms like Cosmos, Matter,
Substance,
Nature, Science, Physics, Existence, Act, Action, Content, Quantity,
natura naturata, natura naturans, Materialism, Practice, Praxis,
Object,
Bad, Wrong, Lie, Despair, Vice, War, Terror, Black, Barbarism,
Under-Developed,
Poor, Communism, Evil, etc. -- all quantities of the universal
postulate,
"A", as its changing, fading "Non-A", of its "Negation".
In spite of
concrete reality, that reflects other realities too, officially, these
dualistic human values are being placed in contradiction to each other,
the one cannot relate to the other, cannot convert itself into the
other -- "we'll always have rich and poor", "everything is relative",
never can the closed, limited system "A" convert itself completely into
its very own
"Non-A", into "communism", into "terrorism"; the status quo,
the
establishment, the "homeland", the "Patria", the thesis, whether in
formal or dialectical logics can never be "Non-A", can impossibly be "A
and Non-A", is forbidden ever to be "Neither A Nor Non-A", that is, to
be "B", "C", ..., etc. We live in
an "A"-, in a Uni-verse, we can only uni-verse with ourselves, we are
simply uni-versal.
All this, we
note, study, accept and understand. We notice the limits and
limitations of such a geocentric and heliocentric formal logical and
dialectical, introversial, controversial, universal world outlook.
Idealists depart from their single, universal postulate "A", from their
"Being", from their "Sein", mainly
from God, Spirit, Logos, Idea, Affirmation, Society, Essence, etc., and
this they call the flow of History, the Highway towards Liberty and
Freedom.
Materialists
also depart from their "Being", from a single postulate, "A", from
Matter, Substance, Praxis, Nature, etc. -- and this they also call the
flow
of History. In the former case, Matter is a by-product, an excrement of
the Spirit; in the latter case, it is in reverse.
In the final
analysis, the whole, dominant Western Philosophy, generated since
Thales of Miletus, reflecting the progressive accumulation of
Capital, turns out to be a simple Juliet paradox: "Oh
Spirit, oh Spirit, wherefore art thou Spirit? Call thyself by any other
name (Matter) and thou shallst sound just as universal!". Thus,
just virtually, as virtual reality, Spirit and Matter, Essence and
Existence, Society and Nature, Affirmation and Negation, Thesis and
Antithesis, Unity and Contradiction, stand in opposition
to each other, contradict each other, de facto, they are
both
dualistic chips of the same lonely, lonesome, universal block.
Philosophically, an apparently third vision appeared, that often is
being treated like
a step-child of human thought: existentialism and/or nihilism.
According to Existentialism, -- Germany, Martin Heidegger and Karl
Jaspers; France, Gabriel Marcel and Jean-Paul Sartre (personalistic),
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty (phenomenology); Spain, José Ortega y
Gasset; Russia, Nikolay Berdyayev; Italy, Nicola Abbagnano --
Existence, not Being, is always particular
and individual, is "I and Thou", is a specific "mode of Being'; "my"
existence, "your" existence, "her/his" existence. Human Existence, not
Human Being, "Dasein", "There-Being" is always Existence as
being-in-the-world; hence, the emphasis is on Existence; and Existence
is "in", is systemic Being-In-The-World! This is why everybody wants to
be "in" -- wants to change the world only from "with-in", is affirming
the exploitative, oppressive, discriminating, militarized, alienating status
quo.
However,
although it claims to oppose idealism, that stresses Consciousness,
Spirit, Reason, Idea, or God, in the last analysis, existentialists
also just have a singular, idealist postulate, Being, Spirit -- because
Existence is just a mode, an appearance form of Being-in-the-World. So,
here it just seems that we have traces of a "Third Way", but, its
postulate is just another variant of Spirit and Matter. Whether you
call the philosophic variants Theism or Atheism, Empiricism or
Positivism, Cynicism or Scepticism, Determinism or Indeterminism,
Gnosticism or Agnosticism, they all meet each other again in a
universal, single, closed, spatial, temporal world system, in the
One, in the One And All.
However, the most hated philosophic trend, nihilism, has
much more realistic "third way" philosophic tenets; its Ancient Greek
Father is the Sophist Gorgias, -- who generally is
associated with radical scepticism, or even relativism, -- who negated
Being thrice, denying (negating) all Human Being (Essence) and all
Human Non-Being
(Existence), even all human knowledge and all human reality itself:
Nothing exists, or if it does exist it cannot be known,
or if it exists and is knowable it cannot be communicated to another.
Thus, Nihil, Nothing, Nothingness, transcends Being and Existence, it
is Neither Being Nor Existence; it is
something trifferent, can be postulated as Nothing-In-Itself. That's
why Gorgias insisted that chariots do not race across the sea.
Since ages, this is what Slavery,
Colonialism, Imperialism, what Globalization, Corporate Euro-America,
wanted, still want us to believe, across the mass media, forever want
to make-believe.
See: Franz J. T. Lee, History of Wisdom, 2003.)
Across the Dark Ages, in spite of the Inquisition, in various
heretic movements, camouflaged as mysticism, especially around the
teachings
of Meister Eckhart ("God and Nothing is the same.") ,
clandestinely these nihilist ideas survived, eventually reaching
19th-century Russia as "scepticism" in the writings of N. I.
Nadezhdin. During the early years of the reign of Alexander II, he
applied them to Aleksandr Pushkin, as also V. Bervi did later
in 1858. Finally, in philosophic sado-masochism, he succeeded to
wedlock nihilism with scepticism. In literature, Ivan Turgenev,
in his famous novel Fathers and Sons (1862) popularized the
figure of Bazarov as a typical "nihilist", a kind of "devilish"
Hussein, Chávez, Castro or bin Laden.
The term "nihilist" itself, like "terrorist" today, became an
ideological ad hominem scape-goat attack against the "curse of
the
time", against all those who were acting and thinking differently than
the established global status quo, thus, downgrading all
nihilists
to crazy, dangerous, dishevelled, untidy, unruly, ragged
lumpen-(wo)men,
to Chávez followers, to "recogelatas", who hate the
glorious,
noble, established tradition and social order. In Russia, it is of
interest
to note that "nihilism" was precisely associated with "terrorism", and
the revolutionary movements against Czarism, eventually turned the
tables
and accused the very regicide of Alexander II (1881) itself of
"terrorism",
a similar global phenomenon we could witness concerning the current
democratic "anti-terrorism" of the United States. The USA and Europe
turn out to be the greatest terrorists of all times.
Here is a general explanation of what nihilism is all about:
"Fundamentally,
nihilism represented a philosophy of negation of all
forms of aestheticism; it advocated utilitarianism and scientific
rationalism. The social sciences and classical philosophical systems
were rejected entirely. Nihilism
represented a crude form of positivism and materialism, a revolt
against
the established social order; it negated all authority exercised by the
state, by the church, or by the family. It based its belief on nothing
but scientific truth; science became the cure-all for social problems.
All evils, nihilists believed, derived from a single source - ignorance
- which science alone would overcome."
(
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=57221 )
Again,
we affirm, study and accept all these interesting nihilist and
scepticist ideas, with all their natural, social and historical
complications and implications. We include them in our philosophic
deliberations. In fact, as Step One, we have become intellectually
"enriched", affirming Idealism, Materialism, Existentialism, Nihilism,
including their philosophic tinctures and mixtures. Precisely this
never ever happens in the global superstructure of being eternally only
"correct", "right" or "wrong", or even being just down-right
"contradictory".
We go even
much further: escaping from the universal, unitary jail of the
fatherland, -- following the sapient advice of Bias of Priene,
in true omnia mea mecum porto style, we carry all that
we have, with us -- we leave the Sphere of Universal Science and
Philosophy, of Unilateral Knowledge and Uniform Wisdom. Transversally,
trialogically, we postulate the totality of Being and/or Essence of
precisely these seemingly different world outlooks, separately, as
independent, non-related, identifiable entities, as not being derived
from each other; as trifferent postulates: as Cosmos, Einai,
Nothing; - as Science, Philosophy,
Wisdom; - as Matter, Spirit, Nihil; - as Nature, Society, History;- as
Affirmation, Negation, Superation, etc.
COSMOS EINAI NOTHING
CHAPTER
ONE