[lit-ideas] Socrates' Thinkery: New * * * Grand Opening * * *
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:04:53 EST
Thanks to J. Wager for his comments:
>it seems to me that Kant takes "judgment" as having two >spheres: One in
sensible phenomena [theoretisch] and one >in actions [praktisch]
>To "will" something for Kant was to act deliberately, that >is, to think
about one's actions and then do them.
I'm not sure about the "and then do them", but I agree that, to use Grice's
example in "Intention and Uncertainty" (PBA), we can meaningfully say:
The professor was willing to scratch his head.
-- unless we have _seen_ the professor _attempting_ to scratch his head --
even if failing.
>One can "think" without judging, ... but as soon as one >unites a concept
with either a sensible or a deliberate >content, it's a judgment.
It would seem then that Kant is prisoner to the Aristotelian categories of
subject-predicate. Strangely, one of the recent cliches in the English
language are things like:
"Think Kant"
"Think homophobia"
"Think Capitol"
etc. etc.
where the utterer is directing the addressee to _think_ about a concept
(entertaining it) but merely _implicating_ (never saying) under what guise one
is
supposed to think such a concept.
All very confusing, and more so in German.
Cheers,
I'm reading Aristophanes and he has Sokrates as leading the Thinkery, but
can't yet find what the Greek for that is. I see that he called the comedy
"Clouds" because that's where philosophers are said to have their heads in.
Cheers,
JL
JL
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