Against Proof:
What Paul Feyerabend says about the work of Galileo.
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Where truth remains unquestioned, no proof is needed.
'Denial is precisely the thing that is impossible to him.--In the same way he
lacks argumentative capacity, and has no belief that an article of faith, a
"truth," may be established by proofs (--his proofs are inner "lights,"
subjective sensations of happiness and self-approval, simple "proofs of
power"--). Such a doctrine cannot contradict: it doesn't know that other
doctrines exist, or can exist, and is wholly incapable of imagining anything
opposed to it. . . If anything of the sort is ever encountered, it laments the
"blindness" with sincere sympathy--for it alone has "light"--but it does not
offer objections . . . '
Nietzsche from _The Antichrist_
http://nietzsche.usc.edu/texts/showtext.cgi?102 )
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Against the Great System Makers:
Perhaps one of the greatest critiques of the following systematizers comes from
Kafka ( an interesting film with Jeremy Irons), whose major works confront our
notions of system from the idea of family to that of government. However, a work
that pinpoints the problems of the great systematizers is an oddity, _Young
Torless_, by Robert Musil.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/English/introduction.html
Torless encounters his life as an irrational number. See the film:
http://www.findthefun.com/events/e0007844.htm
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Germanfilmbib.html#Schlondorff
Musil:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/Essay/unfinish.html
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Different Types of Justice:
Plato:
http://members.tripod.com/~batesca/socratic.html
Plato: justice as what is fitting; rule by philosopher kings who judge the
rightness of a relationship:
_The Republic_.
http://www.personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/great/projects/Johnson.htm
Plato: justice as what is right, willingness to give one's life for what one
believes: the trial of Socrates (justice, political life, and the court/assembly
of fellow citizens) in a series of works . . . _Apology_, _Crito_, _Phaedo_ . .
. .
http://socrates.clarke.edu/
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Kant: binding the terms reason, judgment, and morality into a philosophical
system: trial by reason:
http://www.knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509/philosophers/kan.html
http://www.friesian.com/kant.htm
_Critique of Pure Reason_
_Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals_
_Critique of Practical Reason_
_Critique of Judgment_
Kant on Morality:
http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/srp/arts/MM.html
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Hegel:
http://www.theology.ie/thinkers/hegel.htm
Hegel: justice (what is fitting) as the course of history: _The Phenomenology of
Spirit_
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/
Note: The traditional, dogmatic, metaphysical Hegel depicted in this article is
the Hegel I consider the great systematizer. This Hegel, via Left and Right
Hegelians, sets up History as Judge, Jury, and Executioner in terms of an
ontologically known and teleologically determinate history. The non-traditional
Hegel depicted in this article is not determinate teleologically whereas the
traditional Hegel is. The paradigm-shift philosophy of Kuhn resembles the
philosophy of the non-traditional Hegel, the philosopher of conceptual
understanding.
Hegel on Law:
http://web.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Poli/PoliBuch.htm
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JMC
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