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Further, in order to place the movement of society within the universal stream, this alternative will require the imaginative or speculative element, in interaction with selection through experience and reflection, that is necessary in the absence of complete rationality. The social order is placed in within the ultimate realm that is revealed in-process. Such placement is a form of criticism.

Such criticism applies to all contexts including societies, individuals, disciplines, and thought being presented here. Radical criticism by definition avoids self-criticism and therefore is defunct [paradoxical] as a program but is a spur to real criticism and advance. This is why I subscribe at times to a radical criticism especially in phases of learning and when I seek to overcome old and established modes of thought.

However, the radical criticism is balanced by phases of speculation and construction. The constructive element is placed in context. I referred to "That ultimate realm of being" it is ultimate in that it plays under the ideal of the realization of the full potential and possibilities of the world and being.

There are obligations to or continuities with the local culture; but these are not limitations there is a balance between immediate and ultimate "needs." This ultimate realm that I have labeled [ Journey in Being | home ] can be thought of as true philosophy. 6.5 The education of the philosopher It may be too much to ask that a philosopher be trained in all the disciplines sciences, arts and humanities and the professions law, engineering and medicine.

However, much of the disaffection between science and philosophy and much of the self-doubt within philosophy is due to the inability of philosophers to reflect and talk comfortably on science and due to the lack of appreciation of philosophical issues among scientists. I emphasize science because it is with science that philosophy has the greatest disaffection. It is true that there are distinctions among the disciplines and that the distinctions are good and valid.

However, those distinctions are not absolute. There is a level at which the disciplines merge even if the practitioners can see only difference and detail. Similarly there is a role for those who are comfortable with philosophy and, at least, a representative range of disciplines.