Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 18:49:43 -0800
Subject: Re: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?
From: Michael Moretti <moretti-AT-mac.com>


"Percepts without concepts are blind; concepts without percepts are empty."
(Kant)

The innate ability to recognize objects must precede our ability to
understand them, but each are dependent upon one another. I think it's
important to allow for a physical basis of our convoluted illusions - in the
gulf between the two is where we find food for art. And religion. Etc.

Michael

> I think my quote was from Gellner.
> 
> The Hegel quote doesn't mention emotion.
> 
> but compare T.S. Eliot:
> 
> "What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place."
> 
> It doesn't mention rationality.
> 
> More recent statements point to the role of perception, as Feyerabend:
> 
> "...neither the object nor the perception can exist by itself; act, object
> and perception form an indivisible block".
> 
> Is it rational to regard objects, subjects, perceptions as actual and real,
> when know that on-screen or off-screen they are often convoluted with
> illusions which  permeate our mainstream sensibilities.
> 
> emotionally,
> hugh
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> From: <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
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> Subject: Re: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?
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>> 
>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:56:07 -0500 hugh bone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Occasionally I remember that we : "Rationalize our emotions and
> emotionalize
>> our reasons".
>> 
>> I've heard that before: "The actual is rational, and the rational is
> actual"
>> (Hegel, Preface, Philosophy of Right)
>> 
>> totalisticality,
>> ken
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