RECONSTRUCTION APPLIED IN REVERSE TWISTS TO PHYSICAL REALITY AND CIVILIZATION

The Mirror

The Mirror
(On Ian Krell's shed west of Mountain View, Arkansas)

Introduction From The Hills

The ensuing four essays comprise a complete book for which the preceding website has provided ideas and sources. The whole site is a product of work since 1965 to advance John Dewey's project to streamline human thought in search of a simply remediated glitch therein. (RECONSTRUCTION IN PHILOSOPHY ((enlarged ed. 1948).)

The Old School

I had long been fascinated by philosophy and tackled Kant's CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON in my teens. The nine main additions to the site during 2003, including these four, have concentrated on pragmatic applications.

Reconstruction boils down to elevation of natural common sense above distracting dictates of language. As stated in my "Catalogue" (1990's): Balance can be restored to thinking choked with excessive words by strong infusions of right-brain aesthetics. Civilized folk need to re-activate some native talents in order to visualize and feel reality as well as pick it to pieces with words. Only then can we emerge from "trees" of verbal confusion and behold an obvious but forgotten "forest" of the whole mind in appreciation of nature.

Technical Preface: Language & right-brain

HYMN TO NATURE

Rational perception
Spiritual magic
Ontological context
Metaphysics & religion
Empiricism
Scientific context
Light & form
Illumination
Show me
Dimensions
Micro and macroscopic
Synthesis
Holistic thought
Plato's cave
Half-truths
Opposites

SEVENTH POINTER

Book confusion
Anthropology
River tales

CONTINUATION OF THE

ROUTE 66 SERIES

Kiss me Kate
Human maturation
Flight from cave
Triangulation

WILDERNESS ROAD

Three Great Cities
Trails end
Along old 66
Razor's edge
California Exodus
Adventure
Sonoma Mountains
Good & evil
Europe
Return
Totems
New city
Vision

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