Blatantly Analytical Lines of Inquiry

[Terrance]

Bandwraith sez, 

"The growth of modern science represents a retreat "From those terrible
Lights, great
and small" back into Plato's cave, into the blatantly analytic, the
carcus-ladden cargo hold of the dead."

"In his fraility, Jere is becoming quite the pomo savant."

Not sure there is anything pomo about Jere, least of all his
philosophy/science (Newton). 


The blatantly analytic. 
This is Aristotle for sure. Analysis: from the Greek, a disentanglement
from and not a progressive knotting into. Anal...Posterior, ha, ha,
ha.....

Only God knows the meshes of the fragrances that wafts over London from
Pirate's Bananas. 
Only God Knows! Not chemistry, not rocketry, circuitry, mathematics,
logic, analysis, all are anal. 

Blatantly: 

>From problem (say, a dispute between two Lords about property) to the
solution (a Line). And the problem (i.e., property rights) with respect
to the parts (and parties, including husbands and wives, neighbors,
religious sects, Europeans, Natives, so on) may be resolved by the
principle of the whole. Anal. 



So, not sure we are back in Plato's cave, but we might be in the great
galaxy of 17th century logicists: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, 
Leibniz, and Newton. Their great Greek Grandfather is not Plato or even
Aristotle, but  Democritus.  

[10] Everything happens according to necessity; for the cause of the
coming-into-being of all things is the whirl, which he calls necessity.

See Hermann Diels und Walther Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker

What is interesting too, is that when P turns to comparative religion
and the social sciences he is not so critical of the logical method
employed, i.e., Weber (because P's Major critique is of the
secularization or profanation of the sacred, in Weber, how Protestant
asceticism was secularized in Modern Capitalism)  and Eliade
(Deism/Reason God)  Anyway, those critiqued for the Logical method
include, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke,  Leibniz, Newton, and Adam Snith. 

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1841/dr-theses/index.htm