PHILOS 4 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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The exercise of skill, at a high level. Enhanced or limited by one"s bodily sense of space (merleau-ponty) Includes action and perception: bodily relation to one"s environment, beyond one"s head. Features: spontaneous, intuitive, absorbed, non-deliberative, seeing immediately, responding straightaway. Reason is universal, abstract, part of conscious judgment, deliberate (kant). Conscious judgment and deliberation is but one way reason is exercised, in perhaps an abstract and/or propositional form. Reason depends on or is a flowing exercise of skill. Skepticism about reason, subjectivism or experientialism about flow. Sartre: reason would have to be universal, abstract, etc. , just as kant claimed. David hume: reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions . Ends immune to criticism, except for logical or factual error. Humeanism in contemporary psychology, the affective revolution (railton, p. 827: the hypothesis of affective primacy: Affective system: includes reward, emotion, mood, felt memory, elements of limbic system.
