Jordan Peterson, as the Failure to Think

No. Avital Ronnell and Corbin, &c. al., use this to stand for “Seynsgeshichtliche”, the history or fate of being, in the ergon with the title Heidegger. However, it is not unhelpful to treat the word afresh as a new coinage because we are, here, modifying it as we speak and thinking under the labour of its subject matter. As an interpretation it has many expressions of more or less minute nuance according to the thinker.
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Okay, found it: “The French philosopher Henry Corbin used the neologism historial in order to translate the meaning of Heidegger’s expression Seynsgeshichtliche (“onto-historical”) into French.”

So you’re saying that there are dominating idiosyncrasies that are particular to an age, whether or not they are present in particular people. However, that doesn’t really address my point, which was that individuals must at some time in their lives treat the simple straightforwardly, even if we derive the answers to simple questions from the experience of others. The very simple experiences in life have to be made personally, or we lack the learning incentive. I think sometimes that aspiring philosophers forget that they are biological beings that have to pee sometimes, in a metaphorical sense.

Suffering, as far as I can make out, is universal. This has the advantage of being something that everyone can identify with, given the right example for a particular life and time. The collective unconscious seems to reflect this in the contribution to tragic mythologies over time, which seem to have a universal application.

I don’t accept this formula. There is nothing that is not thought, and therefore all is “meaning”, i.e., it is understood. A theory of values is always misleading because it has nothing to distinguish itself from.
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Again, this is down to basic survival. However, the brain thinks, the body is attuned to survival mechanisms and can override at times. Ask those suffering from psychosomatic illnesses. Finding meaning in life may be a social construction, but it is based on these basic instincts of survival and becomes more complex depending on the degree of satisfaction of human needs.

Okay, but if you want the whole, you have also to account for the simple aspect of survival, or at least the protection of conditions that guarantee survival to a certain degree. I have always been someone who has called for non-violence even though I have a violent temper. Of course, I have to contain that temper within the values I want to uphold. However, I am witnessing generations growing up with no sense for danger. They try to wipe it out of their minds – a kind of Huxelian “Brave New World” is forming. I feel like I am the “savage” speaking out against the “clones of postmodernity”. It is the mythology of the traditions that feed us stories that can get us out of this lethargy, and make us wary for the dangers that our times still pose for us.

I read Nietzsche as a prophet against the developments of his age and, of course, Peterson says he was very right and points to the terrible wars and atrocities of the twentieth century as examples of that. There is a similarity to be seen in Europe before WWI and today. It also had a short revival in the 1920s, just before Hitler arose. The German elite didn’t take him seriously and couldn’t imagine the people wanting another war. In Russia, where the revolution was thought to free people, it turned on them tragically and brutally. The idea of “perfection” is a dangerous imagination. “There is no being, just becoming” I have heard. I believe it to be right.

I’m not sure what you are getting at here, Aubrey de Grey was pro-science, as I am too. However, there is a limit to what science can give us as a guide for life. Confusion is the last step towards chaos, where anything is possible and nothing is possible. The constructivist views are pushing society away from clarity and towards chaos. The gender issue is typical of this. Science (biology), for example, cannot cope with sex being equated with a new understanding of gender. There are biological differences between the two sexes, as well as those people born with both sexual organs. That means there are, biologically, four different sexes. However, hermaphrodites have the chance to choose their sex, if they are fortunate enough not to have had the decision made for them by doctors at birth.
The constructivists have come up with 71 differing personal pronouns and in Canada, people are being forced by law to use them. This is just one example of the chaos that is being caused.

Christianity is the basis of our society and helped the modernists to make rationality the basis of finding the truth. Modernity may have turned on Christianity since then, and we have the abomination of the consequences of celibacy (a relatively new and non-biblical tradition), but the majority of harm done in the name of Christianity was by making it into an ideology, rather than a religion. Peterson went to the trouble of explaining this in his lectures. The narrative of the Bible, which is incredibly viable, despite having numerous sources and idea of the metaphysical God is a safeguard against such harm, as much as it can be. That means that those doing the harm actually turned away from their own confession. They betrayed their belief for an ideology.

Okay, found it: “The French philosopher Henry Corbin used the neologism historial in order to translate the meaning of Heidegger’s expression Seynsgeshichtliche (“onto-historical”) into French.”

So you’re saying that there are dominating idiosyncrasies that are particular to an age, whether or not they are present in particular people. However, that doesn’t really address my point, which was that individuals must at some time in their lives treat the simple straightforwardly, even if we derive the answers to simple questions from the experience of others. The very simple experiences in life have to be made personally, or we lack the learning incentive. I think sometimes that aspiring philosophers forget that they are biological beings that have to pee sometimes, in a metaphorical sense.

Suffering, as far as I can make out, is universal. This has the advantage of being something that everyone can identify with, given the right example for a particular life and time. The collective unconscious seems to reflect this in the contribution to tragic mythologies over time, which seem to have a universal application.

Again, this is down to basic survival. However, the brain thinks, the body is attuned to survival mechanisms and can override at times. Ask those suffering from psychosomatic illnesses. Finding meaning in life may be a social construction, but it is based on these basic instincts of survival and becomes more complex depending on the degree of satisfaction of human needs.

Okay, but if you want the whole, you have also to account for the simple aspect of survival, or at least the protection of conditions that guarantee survival to a certain degree. I have always been someone who has called for non-violence even though I have a violent temper. Of course, I have to contain that temper within the values I want to uphold. However, I am witnessing generations growing up with no sense for danger. They try to wipe it out of their minds – a kind of Huxelian “Brave New World” is forming. I feel like I am the “savage” speaking out against the “clones of postmodernity”. It is the mythology of the traditions that feed us stories that can get us out of this lethargy, and make us wary for the dangers that our times still pose for us.

I read Nietzsche as a prophet against the developments of his age and, of course, Peterson says he was very right and points to the terrible wars and atrocities of the twentieth century as examples of that. There is a similarity to be seen in Europe before WWI and today. It also had a short revival in the 1920s, just before Hitler arose. The German elite didn’t take him seriously and couldn’t imagine the people wanting another war. In Russia, where the revolution was thought to free people, it turned on them tragically and brutally. The idea of “perfection” is a dangerous imagination. “There is no being, just becoming” I have heard. I believe it to be right.

I’m not sure what you are getting at here, Aubrey de Grey was pro-science, as I am too. However, there is a limit to what science can give us as a guide for life. Confusion is the last step towards chaos, where anything is possible and nothing is possible. The constructivist views are pushing society away from clarity and towards chaos. The gender issue is typical of this. Science (biology), for example, cannot cope with sex being equated with a new understanding of gender. There are biological differences between the two sexes, as well as those people born with both sexual organs. That means there are, biologically, four different sexes. However, hermaphrodites have the chance to choose their sex, if they are fortunate enough not to have had the decision made for them by doctors at birth.
The constructivists have come up with 71 differing personal pronouns and in Canada, people are being forced by law to use them. This is just one example of the chaos that is being caused.

Christianity is the basis of our society and helped the modernists to make rationality the basis of finding the truth. Modernity may have turned on Christianity since then, and we have the abomination of the consequences of celibacy (a relatively new and non-biblical tradition), but the majority of harm done in the name of Christianity was by making it into an ideology, rather than a religion. Peterson went to the trouble of explaining this in his lectures. The narrative of the Bible, which is incredibly viable, despite having numerous sources and idea of the metaphysical God is a safeguard against such harm, as much as it can be. That means that those doing the harm actually turned away from their own confession. They betrayed their belief for an ideology.

Dear wild bore, courageously absorbed in mad fury, at the spear tip of a silvery death, from a human,

There is something wrong with a human that does not think. That has its basis in necessity. And is not a philisophic teaching. One must consult daily life. Now, if European science, the teaching of our youth, which we forget we have in our bones, is right, then thinking is a waste of time. One should simply do technological science with one’s whole heart and mind. Yet, we can not know that without stepping away from ourselves, so as to question whether our current way is the true perfection, the right piste leading towards, the zenith of all life on the earth.

You don’t consider that we all had many years of compulsory education. Such that we talk all the time in extreme abstractions without noticing it. Darwin, for example, was the first biologist in our sense. No other beings ever found such talk of “biological beings” readily intelligible. Men understood animals, since they lived near them. But, animals are simply brutes, born from a mother, they are not first thought as some abstracted region of existence like the biological as set alongside the region of mathematical physics, and the chemical region, and perhaps also the psychological or human region proper. The very idea of biology is the most extreme abstraction from daily life, it tacitly speaks of a region of being, and is by no means a simple or “personal” issue.

We grow into being human. You know, for example, Aristotle says, and one has surely had occasion to observe it, or even be aimed at by it, small children call every male “papa” or the like at first. The number and sort of things that are trained, that come over us, befall us as becoming beings, are incredible to sleepwalking humans who take their foundation for granted. The only way we genuinely can see this is by attempting to sense the play of the other ways of being.

It’s obvious the reverse is also true. So this is empty. This question was dealt with at length by Leopardi, Nietzsche, and then a whole generation when the west collapsed into nihilism after the failing of Kant denuded the deep foundation of the European, then Western, confidence in its own development. There is removal of pain, the highest name for that is the sublime, but there is also exalting and rejoicing in the grandeur of being. The highest name for that was, in the Christian age, beatitude. Do you really deny the existence of beauty? Beauty and the noble go together, kalon, it is what is worth our effort, and what in the expenditure of the effort fills us with the encouraging strength to expend more in further exertion.

I don’t accept all these wild theories and mad abstractions, “the brain thinks” and so forth. Life Is not experienced at such strange theoretical remove.

I eschew answering the rest of what you put down, since I think you are dogmatically, so to say, insistent in speaking in the terms of an abstract fantasy which excludes communication concerning direct reality as one finds it based on your answers so far. One lives, indeed, in such a “key idea” as is half present in the average way of speaking, but one can also see that it is vacant. That is when one thinks. You describe the “meaning” already when you write the story you here outline in all the fantastic array of bosh verbiage “the brain thinks” “survival mechanisms” “psychosomatic illness” “basic instincts”. Did anyone speak in such terms even one hundred years ago, will they in thirty thousand? There is your “meaning”, so, it’s already in the appearance of anything for a human.

Something happens, then it becomes “experience” when we repeatedly catch it, when we explain it through some notion, and make a predication of the something. For instance, we call something “psychosomatic illness” and bring it into many spheres of thought and doing that were unavailable in form ages and places and won’t be there in the future. Such things change, and, on occasion, are deliberately changed.

You conflate meaning with another question. That of a perfection of the essence of the human being in a teleology = in “happiness” or the discovered best way to live. That is like, we have an apple seed, now, what is the way to get the best fruit from it. I can’t speak with you because you refuse to clarify terms, you speak from a kind of hypnotic trance which is your blinding promise for thoughtlessness.

This is talk about the whole. The whole is “simple”. It can be found, here, there, and receding into we know not where, “the brain” is one theory about where the whole universe is, a bad, amazingly confused one. The whole might find a prediction: all things. In our age: all “facts”?

PS

You wrote quite a bit based on radical empirical ignorance. It would take decades to learn these things you opine falsely on properly.

What a pleasant nature you have, especially considering you live in the clouds, way up in your ivory tower where you can look upon the Savages like me and even consider communicating with one.

“Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with the thoughts and feelings of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy.” Neil deGrasse Tyson was right of course with this statement. As he went on to say, “Imagine how different the world would be…” Of course, when you are steeped in the history of Philosophy, it could be that this blocks your attempts to reach out. It could be that you lose contact and with that, the ability to empathize. I consider this to be a huge problem, and yes, there are enough people so wired up to social media that they can’t think, but there are a lot of people who are wired up to other people. They think a lot, but they act on that thinking interacting with people. They try too, to reach those who are on a different level of thinking, distant from their everyday lives. It would be presumptuous to think that these people are “non-thinkers”.

We didn’t “come into” this world, we came out of it. We are nature, we are biology. That may be a new discovery in your view, but it was always a part of the collective unconscious, as many illustrative mythologies teach us. Therefore this “region of being” obviously has to be taken into account.

Of course, we have been taught from an early age the wisdom of our heritage. How else would someone make their first steps in the world? However, the only way we see this clearly is, as far as I have experienced, is to quieten the endless monologue in our minds and be. To be free from thought inasmuch as we let it go, and do not latch on or cling to it. This allows us to see things for themselves and not as we have been taught to see them. The beginner’s mind helps us overcome prejudice or preconceptions, but it doesn’t wipe the slate clean. Quite simply stated, by humility, we can rediscover the things we’ve been taught and reassess them.

“A click; the room was darkened; and suddenly, on the screen above the Master’s head, there were the Penitentes of Acoma prostrating themselves before Our Lady, and wailing as John had heard them wail, confessing their sins before Jesus on the Cross, before the eagle image of Pookong. The young Etonians fairly shouted with laughter. Still wailing, the Penitentes rose to their feet, stripped off their upper garments and, with knotted whips, began to beat themselves, blow after blow. Redoubled, the laughter drowned even the amplified record of their groans.

“But why do they laugh?” asked the Savage in a pained bewilderment.

“Why?” The Provost turned towards him a still broadly grinning face. “Why? But because it’s so extraordinarily funny.” (Brave New World 11.54-6)

This “broadly grinning face” was around when the great catastrophes of the twentieth century took place and was there when the sexual revolution started and sounded the entrance of decadence and nihilism.

We can of course attempt at desensitizing ourselves to human suffering, especially voluntary suffering, and sneer at it at a distance, but life shows us that we can’t have mountains without valleys, we can’t have hot without cold, or long without short, or sweet without bitter. And the dilemma of the human being is that he is both mind and body, with thought that transcends nature, but also an animal that remains a part of nature.

Strange that you abstain from reacting to what I have written on the basis that it is abstract fantasy, whereas I have the feeling that I am confronted with reality in a direct way far more than you are. Reviewing the history of philosophy is, after all, the review of a region of human thought, but not its fullness. If you shun the stories that try to find and convey meaning in a life of suffering, it is you who is insistent in speaking in terms of abstract thought.

So the discovery of psychosomatics is something that you regard as ephemeral, although the same experiences were explained by use of the words “Spirits” or “Demons” in the past. Just because the vocabulary changes, it doesn’t mean that the experience is null and void or will pass.

If happiness were the only goal in my life, then it would be very bland indeed. Since the main goal in most lives is to reduce suffering, we have here a central aim that has an effect on all of those we interact with. Since you regard yourself above such thoughts and deem them even “non-thoughts” then you are right – we have nothing more to say. However, just one more comment: This approach will gradually reduce the number of people you can have a meaningful life and conversation with.

I wish you well …

Existence is agony, if I put you in a room alone you will suffer on your own, by mind and eventually by body.

Purpose of life is to lessen suffering of self and of others around you by being kind(real conscious love) and investing time into art, expression of self and experiencing things of which you deem positive.

Asserting will upon any other individual is tyrannical in nature, to assert will upon one who deems it fine to assert will, is justice.

And no this is not from Peterson, I knew this all on my own, especially the Bible being a metaphor. It’s as obvious as day and night that heaven and hell are ideas we project on reality by consistency of thought.

The first “gods” are archetypes of man. Religion, gods and mythology are just mankind’s attempt to describe psychology in the past. They projected this externally as an art form, one that today is taken too literal and it causes more suffering than the lessening of it. Now we have gold for the mind to look back at as philosophers and there is a lot of it hidden in symbology and reference.

Ultimately I agree with what you say.

Agreed. The supra rational analyzed inductively has an orthogenisis of a thetic quality, which prefigured the coming of pragmatic psychological analysis, this is why psychology is transcendental, it is as much a science as it is am art.

The very basis of the interaction hinges on inter personal trust, or lack of, and that hinges on the determinancy of the level of belief or trust, which makes evaluations regarding them possible.

Hi Artimas,
We seem to agree. What I found useful with Peterson is the use of language that helped me find words for things I couldn’t name before, and his clear structure of order//confusion/chaos, and tyranny/democracy/anarchy. Which are sorted something like this:

----------------Order-----------------

-----Anarchy—Democracy—Tyranny-----
--------------Confusion--------------

---------------Chaos-----------------

Too much anarchy and you’ll end up in chaos.
Too much tyranny and you’ll end up in chaos.
Order is opposite to Chaos and finds itself in the middle, as all clarity (and truth) does.
Democracy, which finds itself between anarchy and tyranny, can be prone to confusion, which can also be a shortcut to chaos.
Our task is to clear up the confusion and therefore maintain democracy. Thereby attempting to find the best solution to problems for everybody.

I have just finished reading and listening to maps of meaning, which is very challenging – if not merely from the volume of work put into it. There are many intriguing examples that he gives, which show the degree to which he has gone to clarify “Dasein” for himself – and for those interested.

That is why Meno is obviously right about psychology, and why Peterson is predestined to pursue this course of enquiry. His discovery, following Jung, of the narrative of being, which is something we are all using to make life make sense, has echoed something I have primitively always said, that human beings can be best identified as a species that tells stories to understand his experiences.

I was known here on ILP for a long time as someone who, despite acknowledging that the Bible isn’t primarily historical (there may be a few historical pinpoints), always defended the narrative as a portrayal of experience – good or bad. It is erroneous to imitate any part of it, to adopt its ruling blindly, or claim that it is accurate in a way it can’t be, but as a narrative, it is an interesting witness to spiritual development.

Being pre-science, it addresses issues using (for us) a strange vocabulary, but like other traditions, opens up the psyche of developing mankind, and is valuable for that purpose. I can’t imagine anyone who has half understood what Peterson is telling us, thinking that he is an example of a failure to think.

The collectivist Peterson states that we all should, in order to benefit the collective, view each other as “essentially” individual. Is this a collective demand to how each one should think itself? What could be more “low resolution” than the demand that each one take the same view in order to do what is best for all? Namely, to think themselves as essentially “individual” for the sake of the collective?

Peterson, driving his ego into self annihilation, might now pick himself up and learn thought. Ergo, he might remember what is properly worthy in his inner teaching.

This is the epistemological problem: how can the ego be reduced through other than through an assumption of the essentialusm of ’ faith’ in the organizative lessons available at the time? (18th century) That era was the prima facea turning point where, in spite of the subtlety of the argument for nihilism, the general consensus was sustained through believe in that sustenance.

Be as it may, lets not forget the famous murder case that befell the president of atheism 's most ardent promoter. (Regardless if motive)

The U.S. is still majoritively a religious nation, essentially.

Nihilism is generally non derivable.

I think you are wrong. Peterson says it is wrong to identify someone immediately as being part of a group and therefore giving them the attributes that are associated with that group. The racist argument and the numerous “#Phobes” which have been applied to people, just because they have a certain skin colour or particular sexual inclination, doesn’t fit. Peterson has demonstrated this by going on tour with someone who is openly gay.

People are first and foremost who they are as an individual, and not who they are for other people because of certain attributes. Back in the sixties I (a white person) had friends in GB who came from Jamaica and I was criticised by racists. Amongst the black community there arose concern that I was a white person who visited a black area. My friends made the point that racism can work both ways, and told the others that they should be careful not to fall into the trap. Now we are forty odd years on, and they have made that mistake, but were treated in a way that seemed to warrant their opinions.

What we need to do is, as individuals, work out the best way for everybody, which is what democracy should be (and not just defeating people by majorities) and be wary of where this goes wrong.

In the narrative You commented on Guide’s narrative, which I paraphrased.

Although I have not decided on anything more substantial then on naaia of set theory( that the majority of US and even perhaps worldly majorities sustain a pro-theistic frame of belief.

I don’t know that if that would make a great deal of difference in Your reply.

I can’t really say that you give me any indication as to why something should make a difference in my reply.

I have often found it interesting that people today think they must prove that they’re living by contesting every statement other people make. It would be more interesting, don’t you think, if we had a problem that we could consider from different perspectives - to try to sort it out.

That would be, in my estimation, something that J.B.Peterson would also agree with.

can’t really say that you give me any indication as to why something should make a difference in my reply.

Because the naturalistic fallacy may be too close to call? in this case.

Why should it? Because there is no other way to identify someone on basis of all the characteristics listed, in Kant’s time, perhaps.

I do agree with this as well and find myself in the same boat in regards to living it but not being able to explain it until the time comes for when you fully understand it or have the words. It’s like the big picture keeps going farther out, revealing more and more so that we may connect the dots and then we can finally describe what we have been living, this has been happening to me since I was born.

I was trying to show that same thing as Peterson shows even before he became a big hit, (he does explain it better with his having more experience in/with the terminology) with the Bible being metaphorical and other deities of which a lot of people just label you evil or crazy.

It is language, it crafts our reality, the past languages shaped us but without an individual putting the time into understanding the message correctly through self logical/reasonable thought it leads some or a lot to confusion by trying to adopt it as an external phenomena or idea and so they attempt to force reality to match those ideals not understanding it is all within, ignorance is also on the side of chaos. Ignorance is bliss but what one may not know may kill them.

They misunderstand what we try to teach about culture too and often a lot of people claim we are all the same, in basis yes, we all connect via subconscious and are made up of the same thing(stardust) but culturally/personally we are all different temporary identities as to progress evolution, quite literally the universe seems to be expanding itself using life as diverse physical manifestations of itself. Hence the duality. We need to not force ourselves to be more of the same(cultural genocide) but instead learn to appreciate diversity, for it is literally the driver of evolving.

People will adopt tendencies of groups to fit in when they join it, this overshadows the self and is also where chaos and unhappiness may find an opening in an individual, the lack of expression of true self. It is why I stay away from groups and always have. We become who we hangout with and if you be yourself you will find yourself alone most of the time. It’s a psychological and VERY common misconception for man to attach all aspects of a group to an individual in it, even if they represent different view or points.

In simpler terms, I avoided groups to avoid adopting tendencies, so I did not become them but instead became myself.

I suppose a group of very like minded individuals could function to make real progress without extremism but the difficulty lies in finding those other individuals and the appreciation of diversity aspect.

„Does not compute … does not compute!“??

I agree with you that it has become a “VERY common misconception” and it is what Peterson has been arguing. Just like you have found it necessary to stay away from groups for fear of being associated with them, just the same with anybody else. The tendency to do this seems to be particularly rampant on the left side of the spectrum, where you may find yourself stamped with some label that doesn’t fit you. The confusion requires clarity, which means people have to be prepared to discuss things out, rather than calls names.

The “group of very like-minded individuals” have the tendency to make an ideology out of their ideas, and soon they want everybody to be “like-minded” and refuse to associate with those who think otherwise. Diversity of identity was something that got a bit out of hand, but then the different groups got organised and threw out previous companions. Martina Navratilova is a good example of someone who spoke out for the LGBT community until she was ousted because she spoke out against athletes that were previously males competing in female events. To call her “Transphobe” is a completely false statement and an inability to differentiate.

However, that is exactly the aspect of any debate that is missing. The ability to differentiate arguments and accept that in some areas there is a chance that we will just have to accept that we differ. Peterson’s appeal is for the acceptance of what we don’t know, instead of pressing a point as if we do. The Unknown covers a vast area of our lives, more in fact than what we do know, and it is our investigation of the Unknown that could be a common undertaking. Unfortunately, the discussion is breaking down and name-calling has taken its place, precisely because it is often one ideology pitted against another.

When they resort to name calling and ad hominem that’s how you can sort of know to an extent that you have made progress and have won the discussion.

I agree with this all, you’re right it is more difficult to not be blinded by ego in a group due to the fact that you are not just balancing yourself between self and sub but also trying to balance between other individuals. It’s like each individual is a newly added weight to carry, it’s too much for one individual to represent, the original message gets misconstrued most often from this “blending”.

Participation mystique, never tried to formulate the dynamic imaginative basic mirrored image transcending any meaningful symbolic progression, other then through the borderline conditioning of magical thinking, identified through absolutely binding forms of group membership.

The progression from the mirror stage to the bind, as socially repressed, so symbolic objects are boxed ias receptive in them selves, rather then being mutually transparent.

Here, the ego never becomes one that needs any mediation, it is based on purely non objective (understood) criteria.

Magic also disposes any concern with the notion of a casual correspondence between affect and effect, what really is of significance is the unitary, pre-mirror stage that absolutely pre-disposes a reversal of symbolic significance between simulation and assimilation.

Magical thinking has equivalence between totally assimilated cultural fas well as that found in people characterized as being in bordering normative artifacts in unassimilated
Individual personalities.

The use of magic, so prevelant in the middle ages of civilization, mirrors the period of social and cultural breakdown (between the onset of Christian magic) and the beginning of.the Enlightement) that is feared, in Western though as alienation

The concept of alienation does not bide well even in cases of belonging to like minded groups, for other reasons which characterize certain temporal-developmental stages.

For those reasons it can be argued, that the transcendental reduction of the ego is indifferent to the intention to degrade the determined ego as it had to do with a socially determined intentionality.

That was my point to clarify the doozy that flowed out of a sleepless night"s pen.