By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
What is it to be wise?
To be wise is to understand everything that can be understood by a purely "reflective method" (C. L Lewis), and to understand everything else one understands in relation thereto, i.e., in relation to one's purely reflective understanding.
But what, exactly, is "a purely 'reflective method'''? A purely reflective method is a method that presupposes as the datum for its analysis any human experience whatever, and thus requires no particular (or special) human experience(s).
August 2001
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