I already wrote about derivative, academic or secondary philosophy - teaching, talking and writing about and studying the work of philosophers.
I compared this to original and creative thinking, thinkers, that are situated on the opposite pole of the continuum.
I also wrote a lot about the nature of the work of the latter, namely creative thinking.
for example, pre-conceptual or non-verbal 'thinking or consciousness', or intuition.
This could be viewed as the first stage of creation or the combinatorial nature of creativity as Einstein and others called it.
I suggested that contemplation, meditation and religious mysticism and visual art informs us about and illustrates this first stage very well.
This combinatorial nature is one way, approach or attitude that we could be alive, interact with and respond to the world. They form the building blocks of this creative response and existence.
They consist of 'impressions' (a concept that need to be explored), by experiences (also to be explored), memories (personal or individual, collective, social, cultural and historical, of our species, human existence, planet earth, our solar system, galaxy and the multiverse) and
'influences' (another multi-dimensional, many-levelled, extremely complex notion).
These things assist us to act, be alive and live into or as consciousness and thinking and think, be conscious into and as action and existence.
Einstein, and others, suggested that the combinatorial nature consists of several, for example four, stages.
Institutionalized, derivative, academic philosophy deals only with the verbalized, conceptualized stage by means of its -isms, ideologies and methods (Marxism, analysis, pragnaticsm, etc).
In chapter 3 I show ways of multi-sensory dealing with all stages of creativity as philosophical possiblities, requiring new approaches and paradigms.
