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Wisdom inside-out: a new image of humanity and world,
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This review is from: Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle: The Evolution of a "Transcultural" Approach to Wholeness (S U N Y Series in Science, Technology, and Society) (Hardcover)
This book gathers more than two decades of the emerging work of philosopher-psychologist Steven M. Rosen, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, City University of New York. With a very engaging approach, Rosen intersperses throughout these texts new commentaries that offer retrospective insights and update the development of his thinking and research.
In the earliest [1975] essay, Rosen embarks on his intellectual journey with this intuition: "It appears that we soon will witness the emergence of a new image of world and [humankind]. I believe the scope of the change should be virtually unbounded, encompassing long-held and deep-rooted views of reality." A key to such new imagining Rosen finds in the "Moebius Principle in Science and Philosophy": "The Moebius principle constitutes a process theory and philosophy that is thoroughly processual. In this approach, the elemental unit of process is paradox, the dynamic tension of juxtaposed opposites.... [A]n intrinsic resolution of paradox is provided which results in the re-emergence of paradox at another, more complex level." He applies this principle in ongoing researches on such topics as "The Concept of the Infinite and the Crisis in Modern Physics." In 1983, he summarizes the progress of his ideas in these terms: "[W]here both logico-formalism and classical intuitionism have failed to lead us out of our Cartesian cul-de-sac, the emerging meta-intuitive/archetypal approach may succeed." In the early 1980s, Rosen befriended quantum physicist David Bohm. An entire section of the book is devoted to presenting the ensuing Bohm-Rosen dialogues, which are not only intellectually vast but also passionately concerned about meaning in personal and collective life. Finally, Rosen suggests this consequence of his discoveries: "[I]t is my present conviction that the Moebius principle must encompass a new way of writing, one that goes beyond the objectification of wholeness to encompass the deeper wholeness of object and subject. Moreover, this radically holistic mode of expression would require and invite reciprocation on the reader's part; its effectiveness would depend on us." In other words, this meticulous and highly capable philosopher has made explicit his bridging of the subject-object split in calling for a new portal of awareness beyond the `author-reader' split in an integral awareness of a new us. This perception and proprioception (inner sensing) of a new us on the planet is Rosen's prophetic statement. He has achieved this with full rigor in the context of recognized philosophical and psychological traditions. It is the surpassing of these very traditions that Rosen has come to announce here with his "poetical mathematics." Rosen's revolutionary work in philosophical-psychological topology continues in the volume, Dimensions of Apeiron; A Topological Phenomenology of Space, Time, and Individuation (Rodopi, 2004).
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