SCIENCE  AND  PHILOSOPHY

         By    Franz J. T. Lee

PANDEMONIUM  BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS.

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

                  EINAI-FOR-ITSELF

Intellect a n d Reason

Among other things, there are three major ways in which we can do something a n d think about something. Firstly, we simply do the thing. And in our sense, the slogan : "Do It Yourself !" is very appropriate here. This implies that our Cosmic Being (generally known as our body) acts; and being a cosmic being, it is Cosmos itself which acts. We are natural, and naturally we act. What is Cosmos ? Precisely this is Cosmos! This is Praxis!

 We exist : Think It Yourself!

Secondly, we exist, therefore we are conscious, and as result of this, we think about our cosmic being, about our body, about our acts; we, as Einai-In-Itself, think about our essential acts, about Cosmos acting, about Cosmos itself, about our corporeal acts. Contrary to Plato’s Vision, which is purely passive and receptive, we actively exist consciously a n d we thoughtfully perceive our Action. This is the content of our Percept. As such Theory exists! As such we understand : Think it Yourself !

 We are scientific: We act in Cosmos and Cosmos acts in Us, a n d , We think about our scientific Acts a n d We consciously act scientifically. We are natural, we are being intellectual, We praxis (practice) Natural Science. How does Einai-In-Itself exist ? As such Einai-In-Itself exists, as Natural Science, as Intellect.

 In the Patria, Einai-In-Itself exists perverted; its a n d -Relation has been reduced to a simple and-Relation. For this reason, Labour in general, and Intellectual Labour in particular, have become Private Property, Commodities on the Global Market.

We theorize, We philosophize, We socialize !!!

Thirdly, we do not only think about acts and actions, we are not only scientific, we also theorize, we philosophize, we socialize, we reason. We think intellectually a n d rationally. Rationally we question our own thinking, our ideas and our thoughts, we transcend them, we renovate and surpass them – we "hack" and "crack" the "absolute truths", we insert our own "serial numbers", our Percepts a n d Concepts AND Transcepts. We design our own Method, we rationally transcend our very "Home Page".

 Nothing that we expound here is absolute, exists as an absolute truth ; within its specific context, methodologically, on a certain level, some statement can be "true", in another context, on another degree, it could be "false", and on another mension, it will be "neither true, nor false". This is what we understand by " thinking about thinking", by thinking about thought, by Reason a n d Reasoning, by Einai-For-Itself. In this sense, we are formal-logical, we exist dialectical, but we reason far beyond these realms ; we uni-, dia- , tria- and zil-logize, we excel, we transcend all "absolute truths". But to excel an "absolute truth", we must first identify it, affirm it, only then we can negate and superate it. This, Reason as Intellect a n d Reason, as Natural Science a n d Social Philosophy performs. In this way, Einai-For-Itself, Reason, exists as a Gegensatz, as Intellect a n d Reason, as Science a n d Philosophy.

Reposition of our Exposition

Cosmos

 Sätze : Cosmos and

 Einai

 Sätze : Cosmos and Einai

Gegensatz : Cosmos a n d Einai

 Gegensätze within Einai :

 Cosmos a n d Einai-In-Itself , which exists as Intellect

 Einai-In-Itself a n d Einai-For-Itself, which exists as Reason.

 Furthermore, Cosmos a n d Einai-In-Itself = Einai-In-Itself

 Einai-In-Itself a n d Einai-For-Itself = Einai-For-Itself.

 Summa summarum, Einai exists as :

Intellect a n d Reason,

as {(Cosmos a n d Einai-In-Itself) a n d (Einai-In-Itself a n d Einai-For-Itself)}.

 (CHAPTER  NINE)