tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post2069440453239517408..comments2024-01-05T01:21:21.702-08:00Comments on <center>SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS</center>: Ethics, Mediation, Relationskholiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-38876791507921974892010-02-03T17:33:55.181-08:002010-02-03T17:33:55.181-08:00I also like your point about the black of the inkw...I also like your point about the black of the inkwell not being the black of the executioner's hood. But they could appear as such to a scanner. Thus enters the risk of scientific reductionism that thinks it has "the" picture of the world, when it only has an incredibly sharp picture of "a" world. <br /><br />Oh, my many relations.<br /><br />Yes, I am tempted to think that frost does in fact have an "umwelt" of sorts and that as a result, yes, it "construes" the sunlight. How else can it know how to respond? Orders from without? Given by whom? Obeyed how? Varela and Maturana's structure determinism in the Santiago school is great on such points. We tend to identify all cause with effective causes now, and that reduces the world to external impacts, not heeding the "motivated responses" of those "impacted."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906150103361378805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-14869758584685445582010-02-03T17:21:51.652-08:002010-02-03T17:21:51.652-08:00Beautiful post, Skholiast.
Yes, we are able to &...Beautiful post, Skholiast. <br /><br />Yes, we are able to "show" that abstraction is possible--and yes, we do it by *using* abstractions. Any time you use language at all, you make concepts out of a reality that isn't a concept at all (as Nietzsche enjoyed pointing out), but you easily *naturalize* this conception-making and mistake it for the real (a la Heidegger's "Age of the World Picture"). I see this approach as necessary to get along in the world (or indeed, to have any "world" as opposed to undifferentiated flux) at all! But it's a strategic fiction, a useful lie that we tell ourselves to give ourselves the comfort of predictability. We nominalize flows to think we grasp them. Our God is a noun--and I find that suspicious.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906150103361378805noreply@blogger.com