[lit-ideas] Re: "Ideal" Ward
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:06:17 -0330
A cute distinction: thinking as intellectual intuition vs thinking as sensible
intuition in a pizzaesque context. Kant, of course, always insisted we think
and eat sensibly.
Allow me a beef:
While I continue to philosophize into the new year, I notice that Noel
Malcolm gets knighted, Onora O-Neill gets the Order of the Companion of Honour,
and the people I frolicked around with licentiously in Montreal during my high
school and college days continue to get Orders of Canada and become members of
the Royal Society. I, however, remain barely able to eke out a decent living
here on an island in the N Atlantic to which not even Dominos delivers. As RP
is wont to aver: something somewhere has gone awry.
Walter O
P.S. I submit that it's not possible to rationally believe *that* impossible
things can or do occur. And, hence, learning how to do it is also impossible.
(Aristotle on deliberation supports my cause here.) The White Queen no doubt
believed *in* things - i.e., had faith in the coming to pass of impossible
events. And when it comes to faith, public reason as required by a deliberative
democracy and rational moral judgement has no business in the faith-inspired
bedrooms of a liberal state. I advise she stay close to her King and not
venture out too far from home until the bishops and knights secure the terrain
and safe passage.
P.P.S:
1. P-Q4,---
Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:
> In a message dated 12/31/2013 2:47:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Btw, it is not necessarily the case that the form idealism would take
> would mean what is now merely thought of a pizza would produce an actual
> pizza
> rather than produce a thought that a pizza is actual.
>
> ---
>
> Ah, idealism!
> My favourite topic.
>
> Reminds me of the late Peter Thomas Geach, FBA, Balliol Oxon BA MA, in
> "Reason and Argument", p. 2:
>
> "like the White Queen who (admittedly with practice)
> could believe as many as six
> impossible things before breakfast. The Queen's
> words are possibly an allusion to an Oxford
> character, W. G. ("Ideal") Ward, sometime
> Fellow of Balliol; he was a truculent
> Ultramontane in religion, and is alleged to
> have expressed a wish that an infallible
> Papal document might arrive to him to
> believe every morning before breakfast
> with The Times."
>
> ----
>
> Cheers,
>
> Speranza
>
>
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