Just As Primitive Man Believed Himself To

An Ideology Is A Complex Of Ideas Or Notions Which Represents Itself To The Thinker As An Absolute Truth For The Interpretation Of The World And His Situation Within It; It Leads The Thinker To Accomplish An Act Of Self-deception For The Purpose Of Justification, Obfuscation And Evasion In Some Sense Or Other To His Advantage.

Just As Primitive Man Believed Himself To Stand Face To Face With Demons And Believed That Could He But Know Their Names He Would Become Their Master, So Is Contemporary Man Faced By This Incomprehensible, Which Disorders His Calculations.

What Is Meaningful Cannot In Fact Be Isolated…. We Achieve Understanding Within A Circular Movement From Particular Facts To The Whole That Includes Them And Back Again From The Whole Thus Reached To The Particular Significant Facts.

When In Our Isolation We See Our Lives Seeping Away As A Mere Succession Of Moments, Tossed Meaninglessly About By Accidents And Overwhelming Events; When We Contemplate A History That Seems To Be At An End, Leaving Only Chaos Behind It, Then We Are Impelled To Raise Ourselves Above History.

At The Present Moment, The Security Of Coherent Philosophy, Which Existed From Parmenides To Hegel, Is Lost.