Date: 	Sun, 26 Oct 1997 13:17:09 -0500
From: "kenneth.mackendrick" <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: HAB: Re: Morals & the good life, 10/24


Steve,

>> ie.  if you strip away from a linguistic utterance its' 
particularity then will anything  be left?

> This seems sort of mystical to me, in that it posits the 
existence of "something left over" without giving any sort of 
example.  My sense is that H. is very much aware of 
particularity and its potential to undercut any generalized 
interpretation.  What is "left over" from his system? 

Well it might be suffice to say that they may or may not be 
something left over (i know what you are saying about a 
mystical remainder - no - i am not toting the premise that 
every category has a remainder - i'm just trying to point out 
how categories sometimes do not fit the object to which they 
refer).  A critical theory, i would think, is an appropriate way in 
which to investigate whether something is left over.  In my 
work i'm looking as how Habermas "missed" human 
imagination in his categories of rationality.  Habermas has not 
probed deep enough into psychoanalytic thought to develop 
an understanding of imagination in regards to ethics.

ken




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