Various philosophical matters

46900D0L060     

Transcription revised by R. Doran 3 Sept 2011 

Circa alterum

            Exsistit modus quidem cogitandi, propriis legibus regulatus

α qui in statu quodam plus minus puro exhibetur

            apud    neuroticos

                        somniantes

                        primitivos

                        minus cultos

                        parvulos

                        turbas

                        ecstaticos

                        artisticos

                        litterarios

β qui in ipsam cogitationem scientificam philosophicam theol deter?

                        plus minus influere potest

            unde problema methodi, qua sanativa directiva

            unde problema criticum, philosophici

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Homo sensibilibus immersus

Aliter procedit             cogitatio          prout magis dominatur            pars intellectiva

                                    loquela                                                             pars sensitiva

                                    actio

                                    vita

(1) Conceptus univoci             idem nomen/conceptus cum multis     thanatos-zōē

                                                diversis quodammodo                         πνευμα-σαρξ

                                                connexis significatis                            φως-σκοτος

(2) classes determinatae          figura repraesentativa                          hamartia

      per conc. univocos                        personificata

(3) unicus verus sensus            idem multi simul                                 ambivalentia

            propositionis                significant                                           super-determinatio

(4) probatio                             iteratio, inculcatio

                                                            eiusdem

(5) negatio tollit                      negatio ponit                                       Swinburne

             ?                                 includit superat                                   Rom 8

(6) logicus usus                       rhythmica cumulatio                           Macbeth

     illustrationum                     illustrationum undique

     metaphorarum                    collectarum

     principium causalitatis        magia                                                   Newton f = mc

     methodica causarum          notiones virium                                   ? f(xyzt) = ma

     investigatio                                        causarum

                                                            ?

     ens = id quod est                id quod iam iacet extra

               verum                            reale: prout a materialistis ponitur

                                                               prout ab idealistis negatur

                                                quoad reale: figura repraesentativa

                                                quoad cognitum: realismus nativus

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Opinio Platonica

α experimento novit difficultatem creandi philosophiam – vita et mors Socratis

            dialogi platonici sunt propaedeutici (praesertim prioris)

β dialictikÄ“                              alÄ“theia                                    to on

   eristikÄ“                                  doxa                                        ta gignomena

γ crisis deorum popularium

            usus mythi ad profundiora innuendo

Opinio aristotelica

            distinguuntur formaliter priora: Logica, Rhetorica, Poetica

                        de singulis systematice tractatur

Interpretatio classica

            Logica: modus quo ipse cogito

            Rhetorica, poetica: artes adhibitae ad fines speciales

                        Ars = recta ratio factibilium

                        Ars liberalis: quae ? placent    qq. dd. [quaestiones disputatae]

Interpretationes historicae

            JB Vico           scienza nuova              ‘prioritas poeseos’

            Schelling         stadia necessaria in evolutione spiritus

                                    Mythologia: transitus ex numine divino quod

                                    vago modo concipitur ad Deum unum et personalem

            Darwiniani      mythus pertinet ad transitum ex bruto in hominem

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Cassirer II

p. 4      world of logos – world of mythos

            α Philosophy begins with a distinction of itself from mythos

            β Philosophy compares itself to mythos as literal truth to allegory

                        [but not ‘allegory’ in sense of literary device: not allegory of words]

p. 5      γ Plato             logos – truth                                        eternal

                                    mythos – Wahrscheinlichkeit[?]          becoming

                        Stoics & Neoplatonists revert to earlier allegorical interpretation

            δ Vico: priority of poetry – Trinity of Speech Art Myth

p. 6      ε Schelling       Synthesis of Monotheism of Understanding

                                                         Polytheism of Imagination                     at age of 20

p. 7         not allegorical but tautagorical

               not historical: ?

               not physical: myth is primitive science

               not analytic replacement but synthetic understanding

               polytheism a stage in process from impersonal divinity to personal God

               myth not objective nor subjective – Indifferenz

               part of process – nature aims/ends at consciousness – mythical figures are

                                    expressions of forces in consciousness

8          Problem on subjective side – not the images of myth – but believing them

                        history does not determine a people’s myths, but

                        their myths determine their history

                        no free choice about accepting or rejecting them

                        Schelling claimed merit of finding myth due not to discoverers, Poets, Individuals [RD: Thanks to Mark Morelli for "discoverers"]

                                                                                                but to consciousness itself

13 Criticism of Schelling – his conception involved in Transcendental Idealism

14        from metaphysics à folk psychology à from Hegel & Schelling dialectical evolution

            Association & ? psychology

15 Form of mythical thought: data & understanding: not metaphysics/not psychological history