Tuesday, 26 June 2007

Absurdity as a virtue

The world is infinite, boundless, and indeterminate, yet is conceived by a mind that is divisive, limited, and compartmentalised, which leads to absurdities: contradictions, paradoxes, vicious circularities, self-referential regresses, these being generally eschewed by the rationalist European tradition of thought.

Attempts to arrive at a logically coherent explanation of our predicament that avoids these absurdities inevitably lead into philosophical cul-de-sacs. Better to accept the obvious conclusion: that contradiction, paradox, circularity and regress are essential attributes of the dynamic process of our conscious awareness, rather than being awkward or unwelcome anomalies.