Logica van het gevoel - Filosofie van de stabiliteitslagen in de cultuur als nesteling der emoties (Feeling’s Logic - Philosophy of the cultural stability layers as the embedding of emotions), by Arnold Cornelis (1995)

 

 

 

 

According to Cornelis humanity nowadays lives in a ´culture gone astray´. We live in a state of transition from the logic of the social ruling system to a logic of communicative deep self-steering. In the social ruling system people were being directed and managed from outside, by accepting orders and following rules. Individuals were silent; they obeyed and adapted themselves to what was required from them. Also knowledge systems were, and many still are, ´autistic´. There is no communication between systems and no recognition of the fact that every system is just a part of the whole reality, and not the whole reality itself. Facts and materialistic and scientific aspects of reality are highly overstressed, while neglecting many meaningful but intangible aspects. To unleash all the untapped potential of human beings and to be able to cope with the intangible aspects of reality like the human experience, we need a new logic, in which we don’t give orders but enter into a dialogue, in which we don’t just look for facts but also take into account possibilities, in which we don’t just follow the rules to find the truth, the answer, the solution, but use our creativity to reflect on what truth and the goals of human activity really are. Today’s questions and problems can not always be solved by using the old logic of the social ruling system, often this even makes matters worse; we need a higher logic of communicative deep self-steering.