CHAMPION'S RENAISSANCE
(short book extract)
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MOUNT EVEREST ALLEGORY
Aristotle defined man (without sex distinction) as a rational-animal. Its unique conceptual faculty is its essence, that what makes man to be a man and no other thing. So, if man is a rational-animal, this book discovers the summit of its possibilities: philosophy.
Philosophy can be represented as the summit of Mount Everest, the highest knowledge of man, applied to a particular feat or personal dream, the philosophy of the hero who wants to become what a man can and ought to become, an optimal-rational-animal.
Although this book contains many allegories, the Mount Everest Allegory is the main one. It compares the experience of the climber, with the reader; the first, to discover the unique view from the summit of Mount Everest; the second, to discover the unique view of philosophy, but applied to its life.
An allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically moral or political. Here the Mount Everest Allegory is a picture, and the hidden meaning it reveals is philosophical.
The picture of the Mount Everest Allegory, for the climber, shows its process of physical acclimatization for higher altitudes, before reaching the summit of the mountain; for the reader, show its process of mental acclimatization for higher concepts, before reaching the summit of knowledge: philosophy.
The three arrows, for the climber, represents the three stages towards Mount Everest summit; for the reader, the three stages towards excellence.
The three arrows also represent the three parts of the book. The first, is called unfreeze; the second, change; the third, refreeze. This mean that first, man needs to unfreeze its unelected cultural mold; second, change it, choosing an objective mold; and third, refreeze the chosen.
Just as climbers climb Mount Everest, up and down many times, to acclimatize their bodies to higher altitudes, the reader will have to read the book many times, to acclimatize its mind to higher concepts.
As the reader can see, this book is not like to climb a little mountain on a weekend. If that is the case, better stop reading.
The unique view from the Summit of Mount Everest, is the holistic view of knowledge, and is there to climb it.
WHY OBJECTIVE PHILOSOPHY?
If the summit of Mount Everest is there to climb it, then the summit of knowledge, philosophy, is there to climb it.
Philosophy is the view from the top of a pyramid, the simultaneous view of all sides of knowledge.
Philosophy is the view from the summit of knowledge and, if knowledge is power, then philosophy is the summit of power.
Just look at the image of the pyramid. The “high man” is in the top. He has high information, high knowledge, high power and can make higher decisions, because he sees all the sides of the pyramid, simultaneously. The “low man” is at the feet of the pyramid. He has low information, low knowledge, low power and can make lower decisions, because, from the feet of the pyramid, he cannot see all its sides, simultaneously.
The “high man” has the holistic view of Leonardo da Vinci; the “low man”, the limited view of a modern genius specialist.
Leonardo da Vinci, the model of holistic knowledge, connected science, anatomy, botany, engineering, architecture, palaeontology, cartography, painting and sculpture. His research and inventions in so many disciplines, and his masterpieces of art, made him the icon of the Renaissance Man.
The Renaissance Man is the “high man”, the one who see all sides of knowledge simultaneously, just like the man in the summit of a pyramid can see all its sides, simultaneously.
Today, because of the division of labour, the “low man” is an intelligent man who lives at the feet of the pyramid. He knows much more, but about much less. The “high” man lives on the top of the pyramid and, although he is not interested to know all the details about everything, his unique view allows him to connect everything with everything.
Philosophy is the view from the top of the pyramid that allows to connect everything with everything. It allows to connect, simultaneously, apparently unconnected things, like emotions and thoughts, family and work, love and values, politics and morality, imagination and philosophy.
But an erroneous philosophy doesn’t connect evidence with truth, facts with decisions, sex with values, ideas with the material reality, concepts with percepts.
Therefore, the highest happiness, power and self-esteem for man, it can only derive from a holistic-objective-philosophy. It is the view from the top of the pyramid that can see, simultaneously, the given and absolute material reality of nature.
Compartmentalized rulers ruling compartmentalized ruled, in a compartmentalized society who lives at the feet of the pyramid, their maximus standard is low happiness, low self-esteem and low power, all at sea level altitude. They cannot even imagine the holistic experience of those who dare to climb the summit of Mount Everest, the tallest pyramid on Earth.
If the summit of Mount Everest is there, so is the holistic view of the objective philosophy, and we are going to climb it.
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