[insight]

"Fact" do not always constitute widely shared knowledge, but they are always 'public' in the sense of being accessible in principle to public scrutiny and not subject to the vagaries of individual ways of thinking. An individual is the ensemble of the social relation. Reasonable is a physical action but an action that implies thinking. The judgement "it is reasonable" can be taken apply to someone's thinking. The need to always distinguish between "knowledge" and "judgement," between knowing and thinking, have exercised an enormous influence on English language. Internal contradiction of an individual sometimes makes him confused to differentiate "it" is knowledge or judgement. The fate of the individual is unprompting. How can we define what he decides is good? fate makes him good? or his judgement?

[coberst]

Originally Posted by insight

"Fact" do not always constitute widely shared knowledge, but they are always 'public' in the sense of being accessible in principle to public scrutiny and not subject to the vagaries of individual ways of thinking. An individual is the ensemble of the social relation. Reasonable is a physical action but an action that implies thinking. The judgement "it is reasonable" can be taken apply to someone's thinking. The need to always distinguish between "knowledge" and "judgement," between knowing and thinking, have exercised an enormous influence on English language. Internal contradiction of an individual sometimes makes him confused to differentiate "it" is knowledge or judgement. The fate of the individual is unprompting. How can we define what he decides is good? fate makes him good? or his judgement?

We are dependent upon our ability to observe and to develop good judgments from that observation. Good judgment is what makes our life better. There are bad judgments, good ones, and better ones. The more we comprehend the art and science of good judgment the better will be our life.

[Boerseun]

Originally Posted by coberst

We are dependent upon our ability to observe and to develop good judgments from that observation. Good judgment is what makes our life better. There are bad judgments, good ones, and better ones. The more we comprehend the art and science of good judgment the better will be our life.

"Good" and "Bad" judgements being, of course, entirely subjective.

Imagine if Hitler decided to commit suicide in his early teens. That would have been seriously bad judgement for him as an individual, but it would have been better for the species as a whole.

So how does this plug in with 'facts'? Well, facts are there to be used, regardless of the outcome, be it from the individual's point of view, or from the bigger society's point of view. Facts just make the predictions of the outcomes more likely and probable.

[coberst]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

"Good" and "Bad" judgements being, of course, entirely subjective.

Imagine if Hitler decided to commit suicide in his early teens. That would have been seriously bad judgement for him as an individual, but it would have been better for the species as a whole.

So how does this plug in with 'facts'? Well, facts are there to be used, regardless of the outcome, be it from the individual's point of view, or from the bigger society's point of view. Facts just make the predictions of the outcomes more likely and probable.

All is subjective in the sense that it depends upon the judgment of the individual. All is universal in the fact that we who make the judgments are of the same species.

[insight]

"What is Real is Rational" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

According to Hegel, the main characteristic of Rational unity was that it evolved through and manifested itself in contradiction and negation. Contradiction and negation have a dynamic quality that at every point in each domain of reality—consciousness, history, philosophy, art, nature, society—leads to further development until a rational unity is reached that preserves the contradictions as phases and sub-parts by lifting them up (Aufhebung) to a higher unity. This whole is mental because it is mind that can comprehend all of these phases and sub-parts as steps in its own process of comprehension. It is rational because the same, underlying, logical, developmental order underlies every domain of reality and is ultimately the order of self-conscious rational thought, although only in the later stages of development does it come to full self-consciousness. The rational, self-conscious whole is not a thing or being that lies outside of other existing things or minds. Rather, it comes to completion only in the philosophical comprehension of individual existing human minds who, through their own understanding, bring this developmental process to an understanding of itself.

[TheFaithfulStone]

Hey... That's not an actual wikipedia entry!!



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