It is in the relationship between imagination and conceptuality that the human species originates; absent that relationship there is nothing human about species. Human experience originates in fantasy; the extra-fantastic world of Science Man is an abstraction. Science Man says, "This is the way the world is, free of fantasy." But Science Man has never experienced that world; it is just his ideal.
Science Man is like a head sticking out of the sand in which the rest of the body lies buried. Like his Father, Religious Man, he mistakes a part for the whole. Conceptual thought does not reveal the body of human experience, it just incorporates it; it can only reveal itself; "blinded by the light."
Symbolic language reveals what conceptual language conceals: the part of the body buried in the sand. " Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience of reality." Soren Kierkegaard. And an experience of reality is always and only fantastic. Why does the body hide from itself?
Science Man is like a head sticking out of the sand in which the rest of the body lies buried. Like his Father, Religious Man, he mistakes a part for the whole. Conceptual thought does not reveal the body of human experience, it just incorporates it; it can only reveal itself; "blinded by the light."
Symbolic language reveals what conceptual language conceals: the part of the body buried in the sand. " Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience of reality." Soren Kierkegaard. And an experience of reality is always and only fantastic. Why does the body hide from itself?
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