[lit-ideas] Train Your Character: The Olshewsky 3-Step Method (AUTONOMY guaranteed)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:08:41 EDT
Walter O. has (or had) a Volvo.
I was just quoting his dialogue with Mikhail Gearison (in the archives):
GEARY: Do you believe in autonomous human beings?
OLSHEWSKY: As a character disposition, yes.
GEARY: You go over my head. I am trained as a musician.
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>would wager my Volvo that I have never in my entire life ever stated or
>believed that "a human being is a character disposition."
But then, aren't you saying,
"I believe in _autonomous human beings_ where _autonomy_ is
understood _only_ as a 'character disposition' of the aforementioned human
being.
SPERANZA: So you are saying that some human beings are autonomous and some
other human beings are _not_ autonomous. And that what makes a human being
_worth_ being a human being -- her autonomy -- is something that just
_accidentally supervenes_ on her. And you are also saying that what makes a
human being
a human being _is_ a disposition, not of the human being, but of the
_character_ of the human being. So you are saying that a human being can lack
autonomy, yet have a _character_ (I disagree there), which is or is not
_disposed_
to deliver autonomous acts. All very confusing, if you ask me. I just think
it all sums up to your idea that what really matter is the fickle disposition
of _some_ human beings (those whose character is disposed to allow them to be
autonomous). I never heard anything so sacrilegous in the whole story of
Western (and Middle Eastern) philosophy (before).
Cheers,
JL
JL
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