Talk:MSTU5606 4

From Studyplace

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Study group points of discussion

Thanks to Nick and Kate for their valuable contributions to the weekly study group. Here are some areas that our discussion focused on:

• Rational v. Essential Will
• Are aspects of the will shared with all beings (ie animals) and are some aspects distinctly human?
• Essential will broken into desire, habit, memory (memory being distinctly human)
• Cynicism towards Rational Will/Society? p.19 “…Wherever urban culture flourishes, ‘Society’ also appears as its indispensible medium. Country people know little of it.” On the other hand, everyone who praises rural life has pointed to the fact that people there have a stronger and livelier sense of Community. Community means genuine, enduring life together, whereas Society is a transient and superficial thing. Thus Gemeinschaft must be understood as a living organism in its own right, while Gesellschaft is a mechanical aggregate and artifact.
• Religion- where does it fall in the Rational/Essential continuum?
• Differentiating Toennies from Durkheim via Toennies inclusion of biology and psychology while Durkheim excluded them

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Notes for future reference

• See Tönnies's "Preface to the 1887 edition of Gemeinschaft und Gesselschaft for a good description of the neo-Kantian intellectual framework within which he developed his work. Tönnies, Ferdinand. Community and Civil Society (1887). Jose Harris and Margaret Hollis, trans. (New York: Cambridge University Press 2001) pp. 3-14.

Dzula 00:49, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Related Work Up at MoMA

 

This is a work by Urs Fischer entitled Reversed Scene of a Lost Internal Backdrop, and it is up in the current Contemporary exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. I saw it the other day and thought I would post it as food for thought. Dzula 17:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)