[lit-ideas] Re: The continuation of Realpolitik -- a counterfactual
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:57:28 -0230
Erratum: "epistemce" should read "episteme." Apologies.
Addendum: Of course, there's also the faculty of "nous" for Aristotle.
(Transcendentalist that he was.)
Walter O.
MUN
Quoting wokshevs@xxxxxx:
> Didn't Aristotle maintain there are (at least) two different categories of
> inquiry: one which permitted of truth of the unchanging via demonstration of
> necessity, the other permitting judgement only in the qualitative and scalar
> terms of "for the most part" and "usually, in such circumstances" ? The
> former
> category he named "epistemce," the latter "deliberation." Is it that the
> intelligence required to categorize inquiry in such terms "thinks in degrees
> instead of categories"?
>
> Walter O.
> MUN
>
>
>
> Quoting Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > "Intelligence might be defined as the ability to consider complexity and
> > think in degrees instead of categories."
> >
> > Which leaves out just about everybody. It's the sheep that make the
> > world go round.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 5/24/08, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The continuation of Realpolitik -- a
> counterfactual
> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008, 3:02 AM
> >
> >
> > That some people, even a majority if truth be told, frame issues in black
> and
> > white white terms, does not confine judgment or moderation to those terms.
> > Intelligence might be defined as the ability to consider complexity and
> think
> > in degrees instead of categories.
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > What degree of judgement or moderation is to be found in Thou Shalt
> > Not...? Only that of the person Thouing...
> >
> > d.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Wright <wright@xxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Actually, my intent is...
> >
> > If we choose to allow the restriction of others' freedoms based upon
> > accordance with our own beliefs, or societal norms
> > Then, we must be willing to submit the allowance/restriction our own
> freedoms
> > to the beliefs of others, or societal norms
> >
> >
> > clear as chocolate mousse,
> > d.
> >
> >
> > As with most either-ors, the distinction is overdrawn, leaving no room for
> > degree, for judgment or moderation. Piffle.
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John McCreery
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> >
> >
> > --
> > John McCreery
> > The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
> > Tel. +81-45-314-9324
> > http://www.wordworks.jp/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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