Philosophy as a numinous transcendental and historicist self-consciousness.....

Philosophy as a numinous transcendental and historicist self-consciousness.....

I see philosophy as the religion of science and the science of religion.

It's the religion of science because Truth/Wisdom is it's numen. Knowledge is virtue and virtue is its own reward. It's a religion inasmuch as it provides that sense of perfection and wholeness which has long been associated with the word "holy."

It's the science of religion in that it focuses on the eternal, the transcendental, the fundamental....and of course the holy or sacred or numinous. To say that man is God is still theology, and perhaps the peak of theology. I can't help but think of P-cubed, or Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Plato. Triangles, ones, ideas, music-as-number.
They were concerned with what was always true. And this is the transcendental. But they were also concerned with the splendor of truth, the form of the Good. And this Form of the Good is another way to say "transcendental numen."

Philosophy as a numinous transcendental and historicist self-consciousness.....

The gigantic human awakes. Where is psychology in this?

"The literature of religious experience abounds in references to the pains and terrors overwhelming those who have come, too suddenly, face to face with some manifestation of the mysterium tremendum. In theological language, this fear is due to the in-compatibility between man's egotism and the divine purity, between man's self-aggravated separateness and the infinity of God." -Aldous Huxley

Psychology and philosophy are almost synonymous, really. But philosophy refers to wisdom in its very name, so it seems slightly preferable as the master science/religion. Philosophy is still the science of science as well as the science of religion. I think if you cover the mind's science (thinking) and religion (higher feelings/symbolic response), you have covered, conceived, synthesized the essentials. A triangle with religion and science for the bottom corners and philosophy enthroned above (top angle) as the synthesis of its foundations.

is not philosophy simply the quest for knowledge , the want of truth

where we get these divisions was not part of the past , our history

but of the thinking in the now

The quest for truth is the building of an edifice. Just as a bud becomes a blossom, so does the first question burst into three questions, then into 9. The trick is seeing the 1 at the heart of it all, perhaps.....or the Negative One.

As we move through history, philosophers continue to argue and refine one anothers points. They debate such things as causality and the self and god and the good and the true. They build a tower of terminology from just a very few words. All of this increases our self-consciousness.

At some point we become conscious that our the difference mind and matter, and self and other is only the difference that is put there by "it," because we can no longer say "mind" as "mind" is the concept of that unnameable source of concept.

All distinctions are finite, imposed by the mind, accidental..as opposed by essential. The essence is a negative. It can only be inferred. "Man" and "nature" are just abstractions. The "it" becomes consciousness that it is no thing, but something outside of things. And yet this thought is a thing. So there is no outside.

yet at some point we have to become aware of the fact , that in order to think is based on the Universe , Nature

Living things evolve to the point of thought , because they can

the outside , the without , is where life has a chance to place its foot-hold and does

It's all very strange. Yes. But the outside is actually inside, as the "outside" is one more concept imposed by "it."

the without or " outside " is NOT a concept

the without is what builds us , makes us and gives us a place to exist

Building, making, and giving are all actions. Actions belong to things. Things, to the extent they are even in the least wise abstract, are concepts.

This is a new thought for me that psychology and philosophy are the same thing. But you're the third voice I've heard saying it.

Philosophy can be the same thing as science and it can be a perspective on science.

It can be the same thing as religion, and it can be a perspective on religion.

When we ask what the philosophy of psychology is... answer? none? Psychology of philosophy, though... Adler was short.

When we ask what the philosophy of psychology is... answer? none?

Psychology of philosophy, though... Adler was short.