Comte's three phases resulting in positivism which hails science... he points out the basic weakness of theology and metaphysics that they can not be verified... these three phases fit into the center stage of my triattitude, excepting that Comte denies the early and last stages,(?)
within the early stage I associate creativity, recklessness, defiance and stubbornness with youth, nihilism, and aesthetics; the third or last stage I associate the surrender of old age with all of Comte's religious attributes which he posits in his first and second phases for it is in this stage where faith in a greater guardian such as God can bring consolation as we are about to pass away, and this on the next logical level is synthesis.
The rational attributes I place in the maturing phase of an individual's capturing of identity. It is the metaphysical and spiritual outpourings that call into question our material security and propose a higher new place for being to continue... as a soul.
cf Aquinas' (Aristotle) "functions of the psyche [...] the 'vegetative' ( the autonomic physical function), the 'sentient' (perception, appetite, locomotion), and the 'rational' (memory, imagination, and reason or intellect)"
Morton Hunt p. 60.
I'd prefer to say that the psyche does not have a function but rather only appears to operate for the "self". The lessons and distractions of the senses however cloud more and more the basic will to survive---
regardless, it would seem that what we call humanity is still in it's adolescence.
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