Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:41:52 -0500 From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com> Subject: Re: PLC: Spinoza's Ethics Immanuel wrote: >>It is the idea, not the image, of a triangle that is the real thing. To which Stirling wrote: >Immanuel's example in fact points out the nature of Spinoza's contention >about the infinite - that it is *impossible* to understand it if we compare >it to something already experienced. Does not Kant in Critique of Judgment aim to show that it is the judgment about the relation between the idea and the image that is the "real" thing, that is that which substantiates the ambiance of ethics as of aesthetics? And does he not at another point in the same work aim to show that the sublime is the perfect fitting, if you will, of idea to image, that impossibility which Spinoza doubts is possible? And does not Kiekegaard in Either/Or, picking at Hegel's ideals, also explore judgment as prior to ideation and imagination, without, to be sure, resolving the ethical/aesthetic torment of the unhappy consciousness facing impossible choices? --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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