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Theory, reflection and idealization go hand in hand.  Think-
ing is, by its very nature, idealization.  Thus the  product
of  all thought is idealized, and correspondingly so are all
our conceptualizations.  All thinking leads  to  conceptual-
ization;  and concepts are inherently configurations of ide-
als.  Thinking produces ideals.  Existence in whatever  form
it  appears,  is an end in itself, and thus appears optimal.
(Parmenides) Existence itself, as  expression  of  idealiza-
tion,  is  the  "good".   At the same time, the idealization
wrought by thought in turns makes the thinker insensitive to
the unpredictability of chaos, and thereby tends to obstruct
both his observation and his reasoning.

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Copyright 2005, Ernst Jochen Meyer
