Donald Kerr writes:
"I'd like to explore further your proposed alternative to judgement of
right/wrong..."to just study events, rather than right or wrong
events". I agree this is not an easy thing to do. My question is: is
it possible?"
I've been wondering the same thing. It's seems to me that some of
Kelley's work on Personal Construct Psychology would imply that the
answer may be "no." His theory and methods of eliciting and mapping
people's cognitive schema, as I understand them, were premised on the
notion that we perceive events in terms of a finite number of
dichotomous constructs e.g. good/bad, important/unimportant, etc.
Perception, especially in the form of "study", may be evaluative by
its very nature.
This has also made me think alot about an issue central to more
Eastern epistemological and ontological notions, i.e. the fundamental
(mis)perception of the self/other dichotomy that is reinforced by our
senses everyday. Knowledge without at least some form of judgement
may only be possible through experiential, as opposed to analytical,
means.
Just thoughts. No answers.
Curt Topper
cm_topper@ccmail.pnl.gov
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