tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post4205835372922259446..comments2024-01-05T01:21:21.702-08:00Comments on <center>SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS</center>: Justus Buchler (part 2: Natural Complexes)skholiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-88779053689919026292013-06-18T15:22:17.130-07:002013-06-18T15:22:17.130-07:00Thank you and welcome. I hope to be able to capit...Thank you and welcome. I hope to be able to capitalize on some of Buchler's insights in further work, thuogh my own ambitions are less strictly systematic, and in some ways my own ontological preferences are less "flat'. I'm very pleased you found this and took the time to comment. Be sure to look over at the After Nature blog (linked at the beginning of the post), where more work building on Buchler is likely to be posted over time. <br /><br />As you probably noticed, I barely mention <i>The Main of Light</i>, but this is an aspect of his work I am keenly interested in, the "quarrel between poetry and philosophy" being one of my recurrent obsessions.skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-18020879237884825472013-06-18T13:12:30.596-07:002013-06-18T13:12:30.596-07:00I can't say how pleased I am to find someone s...I can't say how pleased I am to find someone spreading the word about Justus Buchler. Few seem to have heard about him and I've read nothing that hints at the promise and fruitfulness of his approach.<br /><br />I long to read something that builds on his characterisation of human life as proception , of what happens to psychology once the body / mind disjunction is obliterated. (The other-person centred work of David Brazier offers one suggestion.) <br /><br />Having read his Main of Light when it came out in 1974 I found his representation of judgment as either active/assertive/exhibitive totally convincing. Even after my interests turned from literature to science his vision maintained its potency. Years later as my attention came to focus more on metaphysics of an anti-essentialist nature his work presented itself ever more forcefully.<br /><br />Thank you for putting his work forward for others to consider. Oldstutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15798870053205395076noreply@blogger.com