“The great obstacle that reason (Vernunft) puts in its own way arises from the side of the intellect (Verstand) and the entirely justified criteria it has established for its own purposes, that is, for quenching our thirst, and meeting our need, for knowledge and cognition… The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/16/hannah-arendt-the-life-of-the-mind/#:~:text=The%20great%20obstacle,model%20of%20truth.
From a quote of Hannah Arendt, from MARIA POPOVA, “The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning” in The Marginalian (https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/16/hannah-arendt-the-life-of-the-mind/).
ANSWER:
In the compatibilist model I take the legitimacy for both reason and intuition, and legitimacy for Vernunft and Verstand, and, on the Arendt model, the compatibility has its legitimacy in human experience.
Featured Image: Street sign of Hannah-Arendt-Strasse in Berlin near the Holocaust Memorial. Photo 221152381 | Hannah Arendt © Stephan Dost | Dreamstime.com
Neville Buch
Latest posts by Neville Buch (see all)
- Presentism and Parallelism: Why Political Decisions-Makers Need to fund, contract, or employ professional historians - April 27, 2024
- What is “Stupidity” and Why it is Not a Dismissal in My Philosophic-Sociological History Work - April 26, 2024
- No! Not Yes: Optus Thinking is Machine Thinking - April 25, 2024