A Chart
NOUS AND SCION
At the Heart of the Soul
Such that selfhood refers to soul, consciousness and awareness refer to heart and eye (respectively); and such that selfhood applies to consciousness and awareness (as soul applies to heart and eye); thus we derive self-consciousness and self-awareness. But such that the self may yet be unconscious, we might also say that the heart has no eye.
In that self-consciousness might lead to conscious-awareness by way of self- awareness (an awareness of awareness); as such, self-conscious-awareness would apply an eye to the heart (a nous) through an awareness of (and a subsequent filtering-out of) self-consciousness.
Thus: Nous would refer to a type of consciousness that cannot be reasoned (as such the process of its inception neither follows the arrows from self to self-consciousness nor from self-consciousness to self-awareness or conscious-awareness). As well, it is not rationalized from an ‘existential’ context (as to consciousness without selfhood).
Rather, the nous actualizes as pure awareness (self-awareness and conscious-awareness minus self-consciousness) BUT in the form of an aware self (the Scion, so named).*
*scion is generally defined as a descendent or heir
One Response to “A Chart”
Ian Dengler - March 18th, 2008
Reflexivity! What about Plato! Even better, al-Farabi: he had five levels to the self, soul and it’s extra referentialities. Surely Descartes but then what about Berkeley? Yes, he might be Berkeley, but then who would know else but himself?
The reference need not be slanted toward only one soulful outcome; it could also match
“Never give a sucker an even break Edward Francis Albee 1857-1930
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