Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Endeavoring to understand life, and in particular the human condition, on the strength of abstract conjecture or subjective evaluation, inevitably delivers an inferior appraisal of actual circumstances. That is to say, when a perspective is indirectly established upon calculation, deliberation and amassed scholarship at the expense of direct cognition, even if the intellectual methodology is flawless, compared with the actual event, our assessment remains oblique. Indeed, the immediate engagement of phenomena through original observation, always supersedes the conceptual approach by virtue of empirical uniqueness, and the subsequent correlation that reveals the nature of the intrinsic substance of an occurrence to the mind of the observer.