Spencer Heath Archive

Item 736

Pencil by Heath on notepad paper.

No date

 

 

 

     Philosophy is the queen of every science, the Empress of them all. She is born out of the absolute and uncondi­tioned, out of the infinite cosmos — the unending process and eventuation — coeval with the mind of man. Philosophy must have an aim, an object to pursue, a purpose to be increasingly fulfilled. And she must have a method in her pursuit — a method to which her object will yield.

     The primary purpose of philosophy is the consciousness of self with its corollary conception of environment and of interaction between as the experiencing of events, and of interactions and transformations among the events of environ­ment as constituting a veritable and definitely distinguish­able objective world.

     The method of philosophy is to participate conceptually, imaginatively — not merely physically or factually — in the events that constitute the objective and environing world.

     Finite and limited in his merely physical nature and powers, in his capacity for experience, man is yet ever growing; therein lies his kinship in his cosmos. But in his conceptual capacity he is not thus confined. He can conceive events not only immediately as they occur, but also retrospectively of the past and in prospect of events to come. There is not only a factual and objective order of events; there is also for man a conceptual order.

 

     The order of nature as experienced objectively by man is wholly quantitative. All events are multiples of lesser events down to those of

 

     Man is an organizational unit, discrete and individual. Due to his limitation he can experience