Zam part IV Polarities

Primary America/Secondary America, Psychic Distance/Physical Distance. ( 2 moments of Quality. Isolated from society).

Substantive/Methodological.
Mythos/ Logos, Concepts/Background. Train tracks/ OffTrack, Sanity/insanity.

Immortal Gods/ Immortal Principles. Man is the measure/ Objective reality. Realism/Pragmatism. Good/True. Abstractions/Stories.

Plato: Dialectic/Rhetoric. Arete/”The Good”. Parmenides/Heraclitus. Appearance/Reality. Passions/Understanding. WhiteHorse/BlackHorse.

Aristotle: Dialectic/Physical. Form/Substance. Appearance/Substance. Systems of Order. (Rhetoric). Loss of the Good.

The Conflict with University of Chicago:
Hutchins and Aristotle vs. Scientific Realism. Substantive/Methodological. He gets thrown out but shows up anyway. They try to intimidate him into leaving. He wins, but doesn’t care.

Plato admits the White horse/Black Horse is an analogy. (Mythos before Logos.). Aristotle says dialectic comes before everything else. Phaedrus argues that dialectic comes from Rhetoric, which comes from quality. In this last session with the Chairman, he sees himself as winning points (Rhetoric 2, Dialectic 0) But at this point, he realizes that he doesn’t want to construct a system, and that is what he has been trying to do all along. This means he doesn’t want to be part of the whole social process of This causes him to even lose contact with his classes, and then his family, then with all social graces, which leads to his insanity.

He sees Chicago as all form and substance, no Quality (just style). Scene with the Slugs. Break down of his relationship with Chris. (I’m insane, you’re insane) Return of Phaedrus. Trip continues. They remove their Helmets. Chris takes chances, Narrator lets him. They drive into San Francisco with the sense that things are going to get better.