The articles on this website explore the ways that consciousness makes sense of reality. The philosophy ranges over psychology, science and metaphysics. A wide view of life is embraced, and this panorama enables me to produce stimulating ideas.
My roots lie in traditional philosophy, viewed from a modern perspective of existentialism. I am also a psychologist, within the field of psycho-dynamic psychology. I am not much interested in some of 20th century Anglo-American philosophy since it has limited itself to analytical logic, with psychology removed from the fields of interest. In my view, a living, dynamic philosophy always needs psychological input as the means of validating the flights of ideas. I tie my philosophical interests to dynamic psychology and create original ideas, as well as updating old ones.
It took me years of introspective analysis to realise that a person’s character hinges on the set of beliefs and concepts that he subscribes to. Hence true poverty is not materialistic poverty but conceptual poverty. The fewer ideas that there are in a person’s vocabulary the less likely is it that the person will be able to explore meaning in life. The fewer ideas that are within a person’s grasp, the more narrow and prejudiced will be his outlook on life.
To answer this question, I open this website with a link to an article that illustrates the inter-twining of these two disciplines. Many more articles can be accessed from the list of additional articles.
My ideas are true for me. Are
they true for other people? I explain my views in the article
on Truth
and Pragmatism.
Psychology
and Philosophy
how these disciplines
interact.
The Owl of Minerva - the end of an era.
Truth and Pragmatism - the usefulness of a paradigm.
Emotion and Abreaction - a summary of my ideas on emotions and their effects.
Links plus Previews of my other Websites
Readers' Comments - comments on the articles by readers
This website was put on the internet in February 2003
Copyright
@2003 Ian Heath
All
Rights Reserved
The copyright is mine and the articles are free to use. They can be reproduced anywhere, so long as the source is acknowledged.
I am updating the web coding for this site, so the early articles look slightly different from the later ones.
Ian
Heath
London, UK
www.modern-thinker.co.uk/
e-mail address:
ianheath9.mt<at>discover-your-mind.co.uk
If you want to contact me, use the address above but replace the <at> by @
It may be a few days before I can respond to correspondence.