INDG 401 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - ENVR 400
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 4 - ENVR 400
Motivation → knowledge action → decision
Motivation
• Cultue
• Sense/feeling/emotion (affect)
• Experience
• Materiality/economy
• Bodies (human and non-human)
• Location/position
• Imagination thought
• Religion politics
What starts at a rational claim in one end, does not necessarily mean action
Establish unmediated link between scientific knowledge and action → do what needs to be done before we
all perish
Plato’s Republic
• The possibility of justice in the world demands the elimination of all mediation (perfect
communication between knowledge and action)
• If knowledge and action combine in the same body → perfect condition
• Allegory of the cave
o Young man is confined to a cave where he is full of mediation condition. He is chained
and cannot move. He only understands like through these shadows
o Equipped with that true knowledge → the philosopher/scientist is forced to go back down
into th cave, into the world, the city, to implement what he now knows justice demands
o The cave is still the cave, still full of the mediating conditions (all the culture, all the
politics, all the bodies)
o How can the philosopher implement justice in those conditions. He needs to eliminate all
this from the equation.
o Must establish direct unmediated knowledge of the truth and action
o He must become King → the truth of justice simply demands it
o Inherent irrationality of culture, feeling and emotion → seek to mitigate the destructive
impact of the mediating conditions
o The manage all the distorting impulses and tendencies
• Are we presently in the condition similar to the one of plato’s philosopher descending into the
cave
o He is going back down where images matter more then truth
o Where people decide how they belief
o The democratic mess of the city
o Because he knows the truth of justice → must implement in the city
• We too are faced with overwhelming imperative to act
• Our alternative to implementing our certain knowledge of the science of global warming is
collective death
• The imperative to circumvent all mediation and simply rule
The clip of Utopia
• Gender role here
• She is well mean, she is no climate change denier, she wants to do the right thing for the
environment by taking the bus instead of the plane
• She is finally irrational → where she got the idea to take the bus is better than taking the plane →
when really she should of not had children
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Document Summary
Motivation: cultue, sense/feeling/emotion (affect, experience, materiality/economy, bodies (human and non-human, location/position, religion politics. What starts at a rational claim in one end, does not necessarily mean action. Establish unmediated link between scientific knowledge and action do what needs to be done before we all perish. Plato"s republic: the possibility of justice in the world demands the elimination of all mediation (perfect communication between knowledge and action) If knowledge and action combine in the same body perfect condition: allegory of the cave, young man is confined to a cave where he is full of mediation condition. He needs to eliminate all this from the equation: must establish direct unmediated knowledge of the truth and action, he must become king the truth of justice simply demands it. The man that knows the truth and states facts, he is also dislocated. We know who she is (working class mother). At the moment he declares his intention to ruin.
