On Creativity by Bohm David

On Creativity by Bohm David

Author:Bohm, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


Rather, it also includes “qualitative proportions” such as “A is to B as C is to D” (to be expressed more succinctly as A : B :: C : D).

For example, the ancient Greeks had the view that heavenly matter is more perfect than earthly matter, and that it expressed the perfection of its nature by movement in a circle, which was regarded as the most perfect of all possible forms. This reasoning is implicitly based on the analogical ratio or proportion: “Heavenly matter is to earthly matter as the ideal of aesthetic and moral perfection of human behavior is to ordinary, everyday, imperfect human behavior.”

Through such a “ratio” one was able to obtain an explanation of the whole cosmic order. But, of course, it is now well known that this sort of explanation did not work very well. Modern science ultimately came to a radically different mechanical type of explanation, in the development of which Newton’s insight of universal gravitation played a key part. But now we can see that this insight had to be displayed not only imaginatively (through the image of an object that falls and yet never reaches the earth), but also discursively. The discursive display was, in this case, essentially an expression of a “ratio” that was implicitly present in the original flash of perception. Put in an ordinary verbal form, this was: as the successive positions of the falling apple are related, so are those of the falling moon, and so are those of any falling material object. Or, to state it more precisely, if A,B are the successive positions of the apple, C,D those of the moon, E,F those of any other object, then:



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