PHL 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ideal Type, Counterargument
11 Jan 2017
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We are so caught up in the representation of our experience rather than the experience itself (the public experience, for the record, for posterity which is placed between one and one"s experience) The press would be how things appear to the reader as such. He is concerned with this substitution and grading down to our experience. Existential truth- something i would live or die for (passionate conviction) Hagel says, the individual is happy within family, and the meaning of his or her life that is community (more than private- identification with nation/age) Kierkegaard"s worry with this is that it makes the individual irrelevant. It is a dangerous tendency because it levels down the individual and becomes an example of the general case (the mediocrity of a person and a reflection of the general case) View of the danger of the modern age, which we saw in its unhappy objectivity -- its intellectualism and its concern with objective truth".
