Intellectual Principles

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Ancient Values

Thus Intellectual-Principle is a vestige of the Supreme; but since the vestige is a Form going out into extension, into plurality, that Prior, as the source of Form, must be itself without shape and Form: if the Prior were a Form, the Intellectual-Principle itself could be only a Reason-Principle. It was necessary that The First be utterly without multiplicity, for otherwise it must be again referred to a prior. -- http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plotenn/enn655.htm


For, if Intellection and Authentic-Existence are identical, this �Earlier-than-perception� must be a thing having Act. 1.4.10

Hence we may conclude that, in the Intellectual-Principle itself, there is a complete identity of Knower and Known ... by the fact that there, �Being and Knowing are identical�;�

The essential is to observe that, here again, all reasoning shows that whatever exists is a bye-work of visioning; 3.8.8

Knowing and Being are one thing�, says Parmenides. 5.1.8

The Intellectual-Principle, therefore, is itself the authentic existences, not a knower knowing them in some sphere foreign to it. 5.9.5 Plotinus ~301AD

--http://www.katinkahesselink.net/science/observation.htm


In a famous prayer, the Prophet of Islam asks God to 'show him the reality of things as they are in themselves' (arini haqaiq al-ashya kama hiya). This prayer which has been elaborated upon by many Muslim scholars and philosophers suggests that the ultimate reality and meaning of things can be attained only through the aid of Divine guidance. Placed within a larger context, the same principle applies to the proper understanding of the order of nature. --http://www.holycross.edu/departments/religiousstudies/ikalin/Articles/TheSacredversustheSecular.htm


Modern Values

Teaching those who believe they already know

The "We know all about objects, what else is new" attitude cited by Al Davis is indeed widespread. In my experience it is largely unjustified. While many engineers and managers are familiar with the basic goals of object technology, only a minority has really understood the deeper concepts and started to apply them thoroughly. This can make life tough for object technology consultants and instructors: as every parent and educator knows, it is impossible to teach people something when they think they already know. (This may be the only absolute case of "learning disability".) I find that general intellectual sympathy with the principles of information hiding, data abstraction, taxonomy, reuse, systematic software construction - an attitude found fairly universally today - is in not a good predictor of whether the person will actually apply these principles in software development.

To anyone who has the opportunity of peeking at the way software is routinely written in companies large and small these days, the myth that object technology is now pass� and we should move to something else sounds absurd. Not that the picture is doom and gloom; I disagree with those (often vocal in the pages of IEEE Software) who claim that we have made no progress at all in the past 30 years. We have better tools, better practices, a generally more serious attitude. But most of the industry is far from having integrated in its daily practice the deeper principles of object technology, and, more generally, many of the principles of modern programming methodology.

-- BertrandMeyer http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/bmarticles/computer/idea/page.html


Five Values

five values emerged as fundamental to the academic process: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. Academic integrity, in our view, is the commitment to stand up for these five values, even in the face of adversity.

-- http://ethics.sandiego.edu/eac/Summer2000/Readings/Principles.html


Humor and IntellectualPrinciples an illustration of ItDepends


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