Encounters in Thought: Beyond Instrumental Reason

Thinking is a dynamic process resulting from practices of integration. Thought encounters in openness wonder receptivity and contemplation confer upon us intellectual work that is uniquely our own. Digital patterns however distract us from these creative encounters. Our intellectual searching is weakened and fragmented by frenetic consumption of information. We miss out on reasons innate pull toward integration and concrete reality. This book is an invitation to enter into openness wonder receptivity and contemplation with deeper understanding and intentionality. We can do this by considering exemplars persons who lived out the integrity of their hard-won beliefs. Each process of integration is applied also so that practical knowledge and practice become a way into this intellectual restoration. We need deeper knowledge won in the slow orbit of encounters. Encounters in thought are precisely what each generation needs to apprehend the cosmos nature authority truth and moral action. Responsibility to this ecologic age requires a reform of reason; this book is just one attempt to convey a way toward this restoration.