"Repose and action, integration and conflict, acceptance and projection, as attitudes, create natural antinomies, irresolvable orders of value; and the only peace a scientific view of value can sanction between them is one based not upon priority and precedence but upon parity and reciprocity.
As we dispose of this traditional value feud, we become aware of the internal value conflicts within the several fields, those schisms within common values loyalties which are becoming all the more serious as the traditional value quarrel subsides.
- The feud between the mystic and the reformer in religion
- Between the speculative logician and the inductive experimentalist in the pursuit of truth
- Between the aesthete and the artist
On the dividing of sub-groups by the basic difference in their orientation toward their common values…
These directional drives… whether the value is focused inwardly or outwardly, individuated or socialized, are of the most practical importance. For they (directional drives) are the root of those civil feuds within several value provinces between the saint and the prophet, the mystic and the reformer.
And as each these attitude-sets becomes dispositional and rationalized, we have the scientific due to that pattern of value loyalties which divides humanity into psychological sub-species, each laying down rationalizations of ways of life that, empirically traced, are merely the projections of their predominant value tendencies and attitudes."(Montmarquet & Hardy, 2000)
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"That is why our comparison is taken with those nascent movements of folk expression and self-determination which are playing a creative part in the world today. The galvanizing shocks and reactions of internal reorganization a race out of its own disunited apathetic elements. A race experience penetrated in this way invariably flowers.
- As in India, in China, in Egypt, Ireland, Russia. Bohemia, Palestine, and Mexico, we are witnessing the resurgence of a people: it has aptly been said, “For all who read the signs aright, such a dramatic flowering of a new race-spirit is taking place close at home —among American Negroes”
Negro life is not only establishing new contacts and founding new centers, it is finding a new soul. There is a fresh spiritual and cultural focusing. We have, as the heralding sign, an unusual outburst of creative expression. There is a renewed race-spirit that consciously and proudly sets itself apart." (Locke, 1925)
Locke, A. L. (1925). The New Negro: An Interpretation. Cosimo Classics.
Montmarquet, J. A., & Hardy, W. H. (2000). Reflections: An Anthology of African American Philosophy. Cengage Learning.
-Yogabrofessor
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