"Our Selves" is a collection of some of South African philosopher
Martin Versfeld s most interesting essays. This professor of
philosophy, who took great pleasure in claiming that he would be
disowned by most schools of philosophy, turns a skeptical eye on
some of the most revered thinkers in the Western world.He takes up
arms against the increased fragmentation experienced by those who
imbibed Descartes 'I think therefore I am' with their mother s
milk, and finds a promise of wholeness in the teachings of St
Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the Buddha.Said Versfeld: 'A viable
philosophy for our day must not have Newtonian space and time as a
premise, but must realise the primacy of subjective space and time.
We place ourselves in the world, but the placing of the world in us
is primary. The spirit is the place of the world. When Confucius
maintains that man is the measure of reality, he is not proclaiming
any cheap relativism, but realising how profoundly anthropomorphic
our knowledge must be. If we confine ourselves to measuring man,
and measuring the world in terms of Newtonian space and time, we
shall lose ourselves. And this quantification of all things has
gone very far. By rocketry we have become obsessed by man in space,
forgetting that spirit is the place of the world.'"
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