Blackfoot physics and European minds

Futures

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 563-573

  Peat, F David ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

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EID: 0042224567     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-3287(97)00028-1     Document Type: Article

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1. Eco, U., Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages. Yale University Press, 1986.
2. Medina, J., Cezanne and Modernism: The Poetics of Painting. SUNY, Albany 1995.
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4. Peat, F.D., Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind. Bantam Books, NY, 1987.
5. Borthoft, H., The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way Towards a Science of Wholeness. Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, NY, 1996.
6. The biologist Brian Goodwin, in a private discussion, told me about a current revival in the Goethean approach. He is working with what could be called objective intuition, a way of inner knowing that, he believes, should coexist with conventional biology, each enriching the other.
7. In this respect, I am reminded of a story from ancient China. In a time of great political unrest, the country's leaders sought the advice of Confucius. What action should they take to restore harmony? The sage replied that they should first purify the Chinese language and restore it to its original pristine state. In our own times we have become aware of the extent to which the English language has become corrupted in the mouths of some politicians and the military. The language we use is irreducibly linked to our perception of the world.
8. A. Ford and F. D. Peat, The role of language in science. Foundations of Physics, 1988, 8, 1233.
9. Bohr, N., Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature. Cambridge University Press, 1934.
10. Wittgenstein, L., Philosophical Investigation, (trans C. E. M. Anscombe). Macmilliam, 1968.