[lit-ideas] Re: Tune in and turn off
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:36:53 +0100 (BST)
> Are you saying that people never know what they're 'feeling'? If your
> hypothesis is that people are (always?) mistaken about what they're
> feeling (they think they're feeling lust but they're really feeling
> compassion) what's the criterion for saying they're really feeling
> compassion, not lust? Who determines that? If you're saying that nobody
> ever knows what he or she is feeling, what does the word 'feeling' mean?
Ah - the unmistakeable whiff of Wittgenstein.
"Who determines that?" No one. It's guesswork.
Donal
Btw it seems to me the possibility that we are systematically self-deceiving
in our rationalisations of our emotions is meaningful - as is the possibility
that such rationalisations do not exhaust what we are actually feeling or
what can be known about the feelings we have. It seems to me that nobody ever
knows _for certain_ what he or she is feeling - basically because, though we
might feel otherwise, we in fact know nothing _for certain_.
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