[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas Digest (editing) and Missouri)
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- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:04:13 +0100
On 9-Nov-08, at 9:15 PM, wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
Who was it that said: "It is always both morally and epistemically
wrong to
believe independent of reasons for the belief."
No-one. Apparently not even you, Walter.
Being now a thoroughly (post)modern person, I 'googled' "It is always
both morally and epistemically wrong to believe independent of reasons
for the belief." "No results found" was the ... er ... result. (This
leads me to wonder as to the appropriateness of that assertion. The
search *did* yield a result: no *matches* were found. I now suppose
I'm not as postmodern as I sometimes like to think; else a) I would
not have that wonder, b) I would not have put scare quotation marks
around 'googled', and c) I wouldn't know how to use a semi-colon.)
My (plain old merely) modern self would have answered - with the
stipulation that the word 'reasons' in the quotation be replaced by
the word 'grounds': while not in those exact words (or their classical
Greek counterparts), the quotation is 'essentially' found in the
utterances of the character 'Socrates' in the dialogues of Plato.
I will grant that some excellent commentaries (or as Whitehead put it,
'footnotes') have subsequently been appended. Indeed, my *thoroughly*
modern (as in 'Descartes - founder of modern philosophy') self would
have answered - especially if the stipulated replacement of 'reasons'
with 'grounds' is not allowed: the essence of the quotation in
question finds its most perfect expression in the writings of Immanuel
Kant.
Chris Bruce,
lifting his modern skirts to reveal his classical roots
(no wonder I'm not going anywhere fast), in
Kiel, Germany
P.S. [Attempting to slip back into postmodern (dis)guise]: "The
pretense to categorality in the utterance is a dead give-
away." [Expressed with a cynical/ironic sneer - yeah, that should
about cover it ...]
-cb,
unbuttoning his postmodern cloak to reveal the terrier lurking beneath
(I call him 'Diogenes'), in
Hyperreal Cyberspace
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