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This-essay is a7703242.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %TRANSCENDING THE DICHOTOMY 770324 Human dichotomies may be transcended through the simultaneous heightening of affect and intellect. This is unlikely to occur so long as people take for granted that affect and intellect are mutually exclusive. Often people believe it is an objective fact that it is impossible to simultaneously be involved in sensual pleasure and in intellectual/rational processes. Such a belief realizes itself, convincing the faithful of the correctness of their faith. People find in their personal relationships - -- mostly what they expect to find therein. Thus when society has in subtle and overt ways trained young people to expect to find a tension between sensuality and intellect --- they are likely to discover that tension in their own experiences --- regardless of which pole of the dichotomy they value most. In rebellion they may disagree with their elders about which pole of the dichotomy is most exclusively valuable---but find it much more difficult to disagree with their elders about the inevitability of the dichotomy. To transcend the dichotomy they need to experience a union of ostensibly exclusive poles---either personally or vicariously through freely given and open confessions of others who have experienced such a union in their own lives or in the lives of respected role-models. The transcendence of dichotomies will not be achieved through intellectual arguments or emotional outbursts alone, because neither of those processes themselves transcend the basic dichotomies. The ways to transcend the basic dichotomies --- themselves transcend the basic dichotomies. Thus there is no logical way to bridge the gap between logic and erotic love. Neither is there an erotic way to bridge the gap between erotic love and logic. The union of the two involves powers and processes which are not under the exclusive control of either. For these reasons it is essential to educe personal confessions of occasions in which people have experienced the transcendence of the basic human dichotomies. Such education will not be possible so long as proponents of the ultimate/exclusive importance of each dichotomous poles --- retain the power to demand respect for the value of their exclusive poles. Personal confessions are not safe within a coercive environment, and so education is inhibited. The transcendence of human dichotomies will come through humane living, not through research. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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