This is reminiscent of the framework advanced by Ian McGilchrist, although not precisely identical. In McGilchrist's description, there is the perspective of the left hemisphere, reductive, theoretical, map-centric, utilitarian; and that of the right, expansive, holistic, integrative. The left is an engineer and a hunter, the right a seer and a poet. The function of the right is comprehension of the phenomenology of reality (regardless of understanding); that of the left, apprehension of reality. Effective action in the world requires precisely that tension between the two, the dialectic motion from one to the other perspective and back again. With only one or the other, one becomes a hapless dreamer, or a blind automaton.
I think what you're describing here, a productive tension between materialism and idealism, is a very similar idea.
This is reminiscent of the framework advanced by Ian McGilchrist, although not precisely identical. In McGilchrist's description, there is the perspective of the left hemisphere, reductive, theoretical, map-centric, utilitarian; and that of the right, expansive, holistic, integrative. The left is an engineer and a hunter, the right a seer and a poet. The function of the right is comprehension of the phenomenology of reality (regardless of understanding); that of the left, apprehension of reality. Effective action in the world requires precisely that tension between the two, the dialectic motion from one to the other perspective and back again. With only one or the other, one becomes a hapless dreamer, or a blind automaton.
I think what you're describing here, a productive tension between materialism and idealism, is a very similar idea.
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