Re: Science/Scientia Vs. Literary-Philosophic Experientialism ...

In a message dated 9/12/2002 10:20:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, larondin@yahoo.com writes:


> Yet the oddity of the real world is that it tends to at time prove both the Scientia/Science school right as well as the literary-philosophic experientialists.  Our world may be a shadowy as literary thinkers and poets have traditionally eluded to in their works [which is why I try to pay at least some of my attention to literary thought and poetic expression in the record of human history], yet to the credit of scientists and philosophers of scientia it's also quite structured and process-oriented, thus able to be systematically studied and mapped to a greater or lesser degree. Your eonic model seems good at capturing both aspects in its analyses/ interpretations of human history.  Tell me, on the subject of "heroes" in the eonic model, who would you say might be the literary and poetic heroes for your model?  This question may sound strange; but if we look at the gamut of human literary and intellectual history we have everything from Shakespeare, to Greek Tragedy, to Dante, and so on [and admittedly this is even only from the West, there's a bunch of material even from pre-modern Asia, Africa, and the Americas relying on oral and then somewhat written tradition]; who are the literary paragons of the eonic model and what brands of literary and poetic expression best capture in your view the driving thrust of the eonic effect? 


If you look at my previous post you will see the obvious connection to the figures of higher culture filtered out in mechanical analysis. 
Homer appears almost on schedule in the 'eonic sequence', as the Greek Archaic starts to take off. So we have, in general, a host of figures associated with these transitions, especially in the Greek, Israelite, Indian, Chinese band. 
Do we see why the Greek philosophers, Israelite prophets, the Indian Buddhas of the time of Gautama, and Confucius, etc, are all appearing at the same time? 
John Landon
Website on the eonic effect
http://eonix.8m.com
nemonemini@eonix.8m.com