[lit-ideas] Re: A serious inquiry: Hannah
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:13:50 -0230
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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