SCIENCE  AND  PHILOSOPHY

         By    Franz J. T. Lee

PANDEMONIUM  BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS.

Merida, Venezuela, 1999.    COPYRIGHT: Franz J. T. Lee.
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                    CHAPTER  FIVE

            EINAI :  Picking Up The Threads


The Gegensatz :   Cosmos   a n d   Einai

Let us scrutinize the major deliberations arrived at in the previous lecture and carefully expiscate the essential elements of the Gegensatz, to avoid any possible expostulations with reference to Einai, to Thought in general.

To arrive at our Gegensatz, at first, we explained its essential elements, Cosmos, and, Einai, and thereafter, we existencially counterpoised our Gegensatz : Cosmos a n d  Einai.

 We also indicated that "Cosmos, and, Einai " are Sätze, postulates, positions. Furthermore, we stated that "Cosmos a n d Einai" exists as a Gegensatz, contrapostulate, counterposition, contradiction. It is worthwhile to recollect that Sätze concern Acts, and that the Gegensatz refers to Thought. Also, we should not forget that Sätze express Acts in Words or Language, which we speak, and with which we intercommunicate ourselves, with which we affirm our cosmic acts, our Praxis. A Satz has a Minimum Level, Cosmos, and this can be acted or expressed in zillions of ways, depending on the specific level on which we act, or on which we express ourselves in word and deed. Cosmos is the Minimum, is the Satz. The rest, Essence, Object, Matter, Nature or Praxis are different cosmic Levels, are Words which express these minimal Acts, but they are also these very Acts. Words and Language are not extra-cosmic things, they are as cosmic as Acts themselves.

The Saetze of EINAI :  Cosmos,  and,  Einai

Now, Einai naturally has Sätze : Cosmos, and, Einai . A n d, Einai socially exists as a Gegensatz : Cosmos a n d Einai .

 The only way to relate non-related acts with related thoughts, is to bring them into existence, is to interrelate them. In other words, we interrelate ( a n d ) our Sätze within our Gegensatz : < (Cosmos, and, Einai) a n d (Cosmos a n d Einai) >.

 We arrive at : E I N A I in- a n d -for ITSELF. Affirmation a n d Negation Level a n d Degree Minimum a n d Maximum Satz a n d Gegensatz Cosmos a n d Einai.

 We Act a n d Think.

 EINAI :  We  T H I N K,  We  EXIST.

 Until now, it follows that we have discussed, that we thought Einai-In-Itself, its Sätze, its Percepts; in a nut-shell, we expounded the Affirmation of Einai, i.e., Einai-In-Itself.

In the next lectures, we have to advance to analyse the following : Einai-For-Itself, Einai-In-Itself a n d Einai-For-Itself.

Some Afterthoughts

Now, certain questions might pop up : Why all this "sophistry", this hair-splitting ? Why all this brain-wrecking, this headache ? We have already forewarned our thinkers that thinking is not a Sunday afternoon spree ; it is not simple, it exists very complicated. And, Thinking has no relation to that what is generally known in the Patria as "having a brilliant idea", as participating in "cool talk", as "rabbling" with a Coke on the tongue, as swinging racist diatribes, as "Stammtisch-Gebrüll", as pub-guffaw, as gaffing and blabbing the whole day.

 Later, when we have completed this section, then we will give simple and complex examples to demonstrate the precision of our expositions, their daily relevance, and their praxical essence a n d theoretical existence in dealing with everyday problems in the Patria.

 (CHAPTER  SIX)