This original and thought-provoking volume examines organic life as subjective activity. It shows that organic life operates differently from objective thought and truth. The volume considers topics such as: the origin of life, the absorption of food, the operation of heredity, and the possible control of further evolutionary development. Contents:; Preface: Activity in Perspective; Acknowledgement; Activity as a Presupposition; Limitations of Objective Thought for Organic Control; The Greek Development of Objective Knowledge: Parmenides and Plato; Aristotle's Natural Entities and Their Limitations; Dualism and the Development of Subjective Thought; Berkeley and Knowing Other Subjects; Knowing Organisms as Subject; A Plan for Examining Organisms as Active Agents; The Origin of Life from the Inorganic; Organisms and their Food; Heredity; The Mode of Evolutionary Change; The Control of Evolution; Conclusion; Index.

A Subjective Theory of Organism

Politics & Social Sciences

Diefenbeck, James A.

Philosophy

Seeing objective thought as passive (guided and controlled by accepted philosophies and data), Diefenbeck seeks to develop a theory of thought or of reason appropriate to the subject as an active agent or first cause.” His system would illuminate and render more effective the creation of values that guide lives.
George Kimball Plochmann in his foreword describes the book as a sustained inquiry into the character of knowledge, one seeking to prove that our exclusive cognitive allegiance to the so-called objective sciences is misplaced, not so much because they are faulty in detail or deficient in humanitarian feeling, as because they cannot enjoy the epistemological support that they would require were they allowed the hegemony over other branches of cognition that is traditionally accorded them.”
Diefenbeck would not destroy objective knowledge, but would allow each philosophy to confront subjective philosophy and from the results of that confrontation build a better system of values.

A Celebration of Subjective Thought (Philosophical Explorations)

Southern Illinois University Press

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A Subjective Theory of Organism

A Celebration of Subjective Thought (Philosophical Explorations)