Part 07: Seldon’s Message Series -- ‘Overcoming Impasses [Gk.: «aporiai»]’.

Part 07:  Seldon’s Message Series --

‘Overcoming Impasses [Gk.:  «aporiai»]’.

Dear Reader,

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, to share with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, key excerpts from the internal writings, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The seventh such release in this new series is entered below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

For more information regarding, and for [further] instantiations of, these Seldonian insights, please see --

www.dialectics.info

ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

‘Dialectic &/as the Overcoming of Impasses [Gk.:  «aporiai»] & of ‘‘‘radical dualisms’’’ [Gk.:  «diaporiai»]’.

“...Perhaps the greatest benefit of the ‘«heuristic organon»’, or ‘thought-tool’, that is dialectics is its help in breaking out beyond impasses; in surpassing what the ancient Greek philosophers called «aporiai», including apparently insoluble, polarized ‘‘‘radical dualisms’’’ [«diaporiai»], both of whose poles are, as the French say,  «insupportable».  This ‘«heuristic organon»’ can also help us to see into our future(s) from our present(s), e.g., by ‘pre-constructing’ and concretely imagining the resolution of a presently unresolved «aporia», and then by recurringly critiquing and thus honing that ‘pre-construction’.”