"Wisdom is intuitive reason combined with scientific knowledge." Aristotle "First principles are products of intuitive reason." Aristotle Quote:
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Originally Posted by <<<GUILLE>>> Something is missing. A future philosophy. HTS is correct. These branches are all incomplete, individually and collectivelly. But what I say is not an 'area' of philosophy, it is more a 'part' of it. By part I mean something which is missing in the whole of it, in the process of it, there is a part missing. Not an area, as in a type of philosophy. This is part of what I'm constructing, the study of the meaning of analysis (my long post in the thread 'The Problem With Problems' includes many thoughts), and the whole idea of philosophy. Basically, it is philosophy of philosophy, but not being metaphilosophy, it is philosophy out of philosophy. Strange but true.
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Guille, I think you may find what is missing isn't really missing at all___it's just been thrown out by the post-moderns, pragmatists, and analyticists. It's been there all along___it's simply the sensible employment of intuition. All the older philosophies included some form of such intuition, it's only the purified/unpurified newer ideas that are at fault. We must return again to the beginning and build anew on the old foundations. All foundations must include the absolute middle ground of intuitive reason and logic___or plain old metaphysics and ethics. IMO Aristotle's are the best in this area. Here's a short description of the era and his most important ideas;
http://www.interlog.com/~girbe/ethics6.html
regards
P.S.
Just as a short example I include this;
"Demonstrable truths, and every kind of scientific knowledge (because this involves reasoning), depend upon first principles. It follows that the first principles of scientific truths cannot be grasped either by science or by art or by prudence. Nor are these first principles the objects of philosophic wisdom. If, then, the states of mind by which we have truth and are never deceived about things invariable or even variable are scientific knowledge, practical wisdom, philosophic wisdom, and intuitive reason, and it cannot be any of the three (i.e. practical wisdom, scientific knowledge, or philosophic wisdom), the remaining alternative is that it is intuitive reason that grasps the first principles."
Until we get this back in our heads, once again, we are dead in the water___intuition rules...!