Reflections on Phronesis
Reflections on Phronesis About 40 plus years ago I wrote this work to share with a few friends. It basically represents my reflections on my explorations into my life experiences and to tie them back to my studies. A close friend Barbara Stecker once asked me "why are you doing all this research?", after asking her for a Greek translation. My reply to her was "I am going to do it". I never saw my studies as something outside of myself. I studied to understand the experiences I have had. In life the only time I was truly happy, when I was young, was reflecting on and re-experiencing these heightened states of consciousness. I started early in life reflecting on heightened states of consciousness due to circumstances of my childhood. Realizing I couldn't talk to anyone about them because they wouldn't understand, in fact even I thought I was crazy. So in order to come to terms with my reality I found not to dismiss my experiences but rather to acknowledge them...