#actualisation

Today’s blog post is something of a thought experiment.  It’s about things that have been floating around in my mind for a while, but this is the first time I’ve tried to articulate the ideas.  So, think of it as a ‘first draft’ and apologies in advance if it doesn’t resolve itself completely.  One of my blogging friends, Silver Apple Queen, left a comment on my post about “generosity rather…

Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture” :”Regionalisation” and Satellite Cultures

Photo by Navneet Shanu on Pexels.com “It is the instinct of every living thing to persist in its own being”( “Notes” P.55) This claim by Eliot is a variation of Spinoza’s claim that: “Everything insofar as it is, endeavours to persist in its own being”(Ethics, Book 3 Prop 6) Spinoza’s account may, however, be built on a more complex foundation than Eliot’s account. For Spinoza, the foundation…

Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3 : Essay 19 The Spirit of the Times and World History

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Marx’s criticism of Hegel amounts to a criticism of both idealism and the role of abstract reason in world history. Both Marx and Hegel are committed to dialectical logic in which a synthesis “emerges” from the opposition of a thesis and an antithesis. For Marx, however, economic realities such as the concrete ownership and operation of the “means of production”…

Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”:Vol 3: Essay no 12 Husserl and Kant.

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Ricoeur concludes this chapter with the claim that Kant is blind to any account of Time which attempts to understand the phenomenon of time via a phenomenology of internal-time consciousness. This state of affairs Ricoeur attributes to a commitment on the part of Kant to the Newtonian objective view of Time, which in its turn, is committed to an epistemological…

Review of Ricoeur’s “Memory, History, and Forgetfulness”. Part 5 Explanation/Understanding.

Photo by Denise Duplinski on Pexels.com Aristotle’s view of explanation and understanding is provided in his hylomorphic theory of change in which he refers to 3 media of change(space, time, matter), 4 kinds of change(Substantial, Qualitative, Quantitative, and Locomotion), 3 principles of change, 4 causes (accounts) and three different branches of science to consult for both the understanding…