David F. Haight

David Frederick Haight (born 1941) is professor of philosophy at Plymouth State University, USA, and has taught there for over 30 years. With a BA in philosophy from Stanford University and a masters and PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University, his work has aimed at the preservation of philosophy as "love of wisdom". In his view, this is to be reached through contemplation of the Platonic forms found throughout nature. He also believes that through meditation one effortlessly gains contact to the "unified field" by quietening down the mind and allowing it to experience consciousness at its most fundamental level.
In 1992, Haight ran for the US Senate under the Natural Law Party.
There is a Reply to David F. Haight in the 1998 book The philosophy of P.F. Strawson. Sir Peter Strawson was an influential spokesman for ordinary language philosophy.
In 2004, Haight and his wife Marjorie published their major contribution to the field of philosophy, The Scandal of Reason: or Shadow of God.
The book begins by covering the "Devaluation of Being" which it sees as emphasized by critical philosophers throughout history, and from there covers classical arguments for God's existence. Haight examines these arguments from the level of modern logic and then goes on to cover the knowledge gained in recent centuries concerning the theory of relativity and modern mathematics. The book concludes that truth itself is a "scandal" to our common understanding of reason and rational thought. True understanding is only acquired through "transrational" thinking and such thinking can only be cultured through contact with the infinite source in daily meditation.

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