Blog Archive
-
▼
2016
(343)
-
▼
April
(30)
- The recognition of bias can lead to a shocke...
- Everything that is done is done for some rea...
- If it was true that he was wiser than he kn...
- After a period of relative contentment his m...
- The narratives we build our lives around are...
- If he caught himself in the belief that his ...
- To be is to be seen to be; to know that some...
- So much of what is taken to be the inner lif...
- It is not right to say that experience has m...
- The taste of this tea, the knowing whether i...
- What name to give it, the event, all this? R...
- One way or another, whether you go all out o...
- Surely it begins with the conatus essendi, t...
- He was the acolyte or the priest of his true...
- After he'd given up on all theories he found...
- Acceding to the demands of desire had beco...
- Two streams that run in parallel: what is ha...
- First there is the mere being of things, or ...
- Aberrant brain states as recorded by various...
- In waking life there are forgettable transit...
- It is a cultural achievement to view experie...
- Passion was like an alien self implanted wit...
- Images of fulfilment, not merely satisfactio...
- Identifying as the owner of our purposes rai...
- Purposive action is very much a feature of d...
- Deliberation in relation to purposes is a ge...
- The attempt to produce a coherent picture of...
- Language of analogies is not trying to set u...
- There is the predicament and the presence of...
- What he saw as flatness - as a dull mind in ...
-
▼
April
(30)
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Deliberation in relation to purposes is a general description of much of thought. It may be rational or emotional and even anti-rational, but it must be in relation to a set of criteria, or values. These need not be consistent or rigidly adhered to, and their scope may be narrow or wide, they or their priorities may be altered in the course of the deliberation, although there is little to distinguish between the kind of value that is a priority mapping of other values and a simpler kind. Deliberation is the concrete representation of freedom as freedom to act. Against this there is an experience of freedom from constraint. Here it is not a matter of balancing ultimate values but of a peculiarly felicitous sense of being. Not freedom of action, but of comportment, of self-determination, a kind of euphoric sense of being wholly in the world but at the same time lifted above it. It is a positive expression of a release from desires, and their associated fantasies and compulsions, an unbinding which has come about as a gift, not as the outcome of any purposes. This freedom lives in the refusal of action, but is the freedom of a self, and bears a hidden relation to volitional freedom. The essence of freedom from, that seemingly metaphysical spacing and detachment, seems to be fully expressed only in its utter destruction, its death in submission to action.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.