From: Scott Roberts (jse885@localnet.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2005 - 17:02:55 GMT
All interested,
My last post in the "Them pesky pragmatists" got kind of mixed up at the
end, so I want to try to clarify it a bit, but since the clarification
brings in the Kantian problematic, I'm putting it here.
What I said is that mysticism, and religion in general, always contains an
appearance/reality distinction in the form of recognizing our current state
as one of ignorance or illusion, of being out of touch with Ultimate
Reality. Plato's A/R distinction can be seen in this way, as the parable of
the cave shows. A philosophy of mysticism will attempt to analyze the nature
of the illusion, which means saying something about the Reality..
Kant's A/R distinction is different. He says that there is a reality which
our conceptual structure turns into appearances, and that we can never know
what that reality is in itself. He also says that that conceptual structure
is fixed and necessary, the Categories, e.g., of space, time, causality,
etc.
The MOQ differs from Kant in that it does not assume that the conceptual
structure is fixed and necessary, but keeps the idea that it is conceptual
structure (static intellectual patterns of value) that cuts us off from
reality (DQ). The MOQ claim that DQ is "pre-intellectual" is a Kantian
pattern. The main conceptual structure that produces non-real appearances is
the subject/object form.
Hence the MOQ includes both types of A/R distinction, the Kantian and the
mystical. That is, it advocates a mystical program of putting intellectual
SPOV to sleep in order to experience reality. So in this means of getting
back into touch with reality, it also reinforces the Kantian duality
between the conceptual and reality. As James, and most philosophies of
mysticism have done since Kant.
- Scott
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