"When viewed historically, every solution of a philosophical problem belongs to a situation present at that time. Man, this temporal creature, maintains the security of his existence, as long as he works in time, by lifting his creations out of the temporal flux as enduring objects. While under this illusion he creates with greater joy and power. Herein lies the eternal contradiction between the creative and the historical consciousness. The former naturally tries to forget the past and ignore the better in the future. But the latter lives in the synthesis of all times, and it perceives in all individual creation the accompanying relativity and transience. This contradiction is the silently borne affliction of philosophy today. For in the contemporary philosopher his own creative activity is co-present with the historical consciousness, since at present his philosophy without this would would embrace only a fragment reality. He must recognize his creative activity as a part of the historical continuum, in which he consciously produces something dependent. Then a resolution of this contradiction becomes possible for him. Accordingly, the fundamental characteristic in all functions of philosophy is the drive of the mind which transcends attachment to the determinate, finite, limited interest and strives to fit into some inclusive, definitive idea every theory which has arisen from a restricted need."
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:12:23 +0000
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