[lit-ideas] Re: A serious inquiry: Hannah
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:32:56 -0700 (PDT)
I am not sure what kind of help you are seeking, but
for what it's worth I think that political judgements
entail moral judgements. More specifically, they seem
to include judgements on which ends are desirable (i.e
moral) and practical judgements on whether these ends
are attainable and how they are to be attained. It's
mistifying to me then how moral judgements can contain
components that are absent from political judgements.
Such a view also seems to represent a radical break
with both Platonist and Aristotelian traditions where
morality and politics are viewed as being closely
intertwined. The separation of politics from morality
is usually associated with Machiavelli, but I doubt
that this will be much help.
O.K.
--- wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
> Sometimes I find that the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict
> is being played out right
> here in our pub in microcosm. (Nah ... couldn't be.)
>
>
> Be that as it may, I have a question. It has been
> drawn to my attention that
> Kant's work on aesthetic judgement in the Third
> Critique is of relevance to a
> theory of political judgement, odd as it may
> initially appear. Hannah Arendt
> (no self-righteous snickers, plse.) has attempted to
> develop a theory of
> political judgement on the basis of Kant's writings
> on "enlarged
> mentality/thought," "sensus communis" and
> "representative thinking." Hannah's
> efforts appear to pursue Kant's idea that political
> judgement, like aesthetic
> judgement, is not a case of determinate judgement
> (subsuming a particular under
> a universal) but rather of reflective judgement
> (identifying a universal
> through the particular). In other words, political
> judgement, in
> differentiation from moral judgement, is grounded in
> the operations of the
> Imagination, not of the will as Practical Reason.
> I'm all at sea on this topic
> but I need to find out about it asap.. Could anyone
> (regardless of political
> affiliation or sensibility) shed some light on this,
> or point me in the
> direction of someone who can? All efforts much
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers, Walter
>
> Walter C. Okshevsky
> Faculty of Moral (not-Political) Philosophy
> Marburg, Germany
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >
> > Phil,
> >
> > I haven't threatened to beat you up, yet. However,
> > from now on I feel free to do so. Surely
> threatening
> > to beat somone up is less morally objectionable
> than
> > advocating genocide. Well, there you have it. Oh,
> and
> > keep playing the jerkish theologian, it suits you
> > well.
> >
> > O.K.
> >
> >
> > --- Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Omar Kusturica posted this howler:
> > >
> > > "I have a serious inquiry addressed to the
> people
> > > here who are concerned
> > > with civility and such matters."
> > >
> > >
> > > Omar, you threatened to beat me up because I was
> too
> > > polite to you.
> > > Please don't pretend you are interested in
> civility.
> > > Just continue to
> > > play the anti-Semitic lout and avoid this
> pretence
> > > of good manners. It
> > > just doesn't fit the role. Thank you.
> > >
> > > Oh, and I liked the 'serious inquiry' bit. As
> > > though that made it
> > > serious.
> > >
> > >
> > > Bemused,
> > >
> > > Phil Enns
> > > Toronto, ON
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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