In Critchley’s reading of the dialogues, “excessive grief and lamentation […] never gets anyone anywhere. What should be cultivated instead […] is the capacity for deliberation (bouleusis) which is subject to the activity of logos and the calculating rational part of the soul.”
...
Critchley is at his most incisive when his criticism of ancient thinkers speaks, at least indirectly, to the contemporary discipline of philosophy. “At the core of philosophy,” Critchley writes in his assessment of Plato, “lies affect regulation, the rational ordering of emotion. Do we not glimpse here the cold, obsessional core of the philosophical personality?” I think so. What could philosophy be if it shook its cold, obsessional core? It might lose the semblance of security against the turbulent world, but it should be strong enough to face and express the disruption of being alive.John Kaag - Tragedy, the Greeks and Us
No comments:
Post a Comment