[lit-ideas] Re: Geary on Instrumental Technological Rationality
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:36:01 -0230
Things, like a walk in the park ... things, like a kiss in the dark ....
John is certainly correct in his view that the individuation of a thing as the
particular thing it be and the kind of thing it be is the product of
transcendental constitution. But this truth may not quite generalize to the
moral realm, as The Master himself clearly recognized. The Moral Law appears to
us sublunary types in the form of the Categorical Imperative. But this is a far
cry from saying that the Law would not be save for the activities of
construction carried on by us types. The Moral Law is embedded within the very
fabric of the universe, and we are constituent members of that universe. The
rest is simple deduction. Who would have thung it?
Walter O
MUN
Quoting John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > This is important. I cannot conceive of a human being (not a thing,
> > really) just thinging. Take an Air Conditioner Repair Man (or Person).
> > Surely he needs permission (by a nonthing = person) to get in, and
> > he´ll need the payment from the person (not thing).
>
> Both the Buddhists and the Kantians might say that we "thing." We create
> the appearance of a "thing" where none existed; without people there
> would be no "things" at all. The forms of apperception (or the law of
> dependent origination) require that we notice that the process of
> "thinging" be a human one, not one in the outside (noumenal) world.
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