Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Streben, selbstloses; Mühsal; allgemeine Befangenheit (general bias)s Vorurteil

Kurzinhalt: Schwierigkeit, sich einen Habitus des uneingeschränkten Strebens anzueignen

Textausschnitt: In your own particular history, it takes considerable training and purging of other desires before you begin to feel comfortable in a purely intellectual pattern of knowing. Even after you have acquired a taste for purely intellectual issues, you are still a long way from making such a disinterested desire to know the central orienting desire of your living. The reason is, of course, that purely intellectual patterns emerge in a person who already has a different orienting set of personal and collective habits. So in the Hellenic culture the rise of theoretical patterns took place in communities already oriented by their symbolic and practical patterns of knowing.