File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 898


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?




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