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ramp #57
Really?
If you think logical thinking is the perfect epistemological tool, you’d better put this magazine aside right now. Unfortunately, life is not unconditionally logical. More like merrily untamed. But no matter.
People may think logically – but also always intuitively. The ideal philosophical method: dialectics. Among the ancient Greeks, it was the art of conversation. The main difference to logical thinking, after all, is that dialectical thinking challenges the position from which it starts by making opposing claims for a solution-synthesis of both positions. For Plato, it was the “theory of ideas”, for Aristotle “mental gymnastics”. Hegel later brought it to the point, calling dialectics “the driving moment of the sensible within the reasonable mind, by which the mind finally cancels itself out”.
In this issue of our magazine, on the other hand, we are simply engaging in a stimulating conversation. We ask the question “Really?” and allow it to unfold in a playful range between indignant outrage and thoughtful reflection. Because not only is everything connected, it also is the relationships between things that make them what they are. Or something like that.