thsi quote is by William Butler Yeats
2007-02-12 20:21:37 · 7 answers · asked by Marie P 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I both agree and disagree. According to philosopher Ken Wilbur, insight (into the 'truth') comes from three sources: the empirical (reasoning or jnana), the spiritual (bhakti), and the experiential (karma). In that sense, we "reason ourselves into it", but we ALSO "see it" (in the epiphanic sense) and "taste and feel it" (in the epistemological sense).
Wilbur's argument is that insight that comes from one area complements rather than decrements insight achieved through the others.
I believe that most religions have some similar notion as well.
2007-02-12 20:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by Don M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES, but few can just experience the senses and let it go at that. Unless you are practiced in this discipline, living in the moment. The mind will draw associations on every sensory input with stuff from the past and instead of experiencing the present Taste, Feel, Sight. You experience your prejudices, opinions and other junk. But even labeling an experience truth might be subjective. It just is, its not true or false, it just is. Feel, See and Taste and try not to think too much. Which is what I would do. If we made love.
2007-02-13 04:51:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Yeats knew otherwise, the truth of which he spoke was 'beauty'.
For his daughter he wrote,
"May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend."
The sensory world is illusory however much beauty we find there.
2007-02-13 05:58:51 · answer #3 · answered by Third Son of Marianne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-02-13 04:33:28 · answer #4 · answered by aburobroy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
false -- we taste because we choose to taste, we wouldn't if we didn't want to. That explains mental illness and how the infirm don't experience reality the way most of us choose to. Because everything is a choice, thus reality is subjective.
2007-02-13 06:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Lily 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. Individually, humans can rationalize the most ridiculous fallacy.
2007-02-13 04:25:57 · answer #6 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT IS TRUTH?
2007-02-13 06:43:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋