{"id":2733,"date":"2013-09-29T22:40:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T22:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2019-08-25T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T06:25:22","slug":"sunday-september-29-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/09\/29\/sunday-september-29-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday September 29, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Content:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Media review: Spartacus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Continuing break-down of Kant-reading<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Media review: Spartacus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Media I appreciate: Spartacus. Superficially this would seem the farthest of likelihood, yet whatever those base characters may be, they are redeemed by any number of virtues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It might be fairer to begin with the listing of the ostensible detriments. First and foremost, it appears as not much more than a bestial affair; oiled torsos, taught muscle grasping sword and shield, anger burning with sparks of rage, inducing what might the forlorn human condition, war. Cheap sex to clasp attention, like Hansel and Gretel&#8217;s breadcrumbs; soon consumed and long gone. I could probably say more, but it would only cheapen further what has already been said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, instead, and by contrast, there is much that I appreciate about the show. Obviously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Language. The best I can describe it is Shakespearean but in modern English. Their aphorisms, gnomic statements, and declarations that are as much to the players as they are to the audience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Metaphor for Global Americana (I choose this term instead of others, including The West or G20 or whatnot, because the story here involves one gigantic empire, as eternal as it is powerful. Examples for this metaphor include the role of slaves (almost half of the Italian populace were slaves) (America has its lower classes and even better the workers it keeps outside its nation&#8217;s borders). On this point it is also outstanding &#8211; outstanding were it not identical here and now &#8211; how civilized these Roman nobility could be. It&#8217;s suggests an unfortunate truth that through history&#8217;s growth of liberty and emancipation, people have not gotten better, merely, they are less worse. Another pertinent example, relating to television production, is the way the Romans subjugate other people&#8217;s and nations. They may claim to share the empire in all its glory and wealth, and protection too, but none at all of that is seen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spartacus, Spartacus, Spartacus. He fought because he had to. He had to fight without regard for the overwhelming odds. Every generation needs one. Sometimes I feel like this one does more than any.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t know what he would look like. Today? Manning? Snowden. Titans walking among men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Meta: Next stuff]\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Continuing break-down of Kant-reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/09\/24\/tuesday-september-24-2013\/\">The last sentence I wrote about my reading of Kant was<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(1.5) Experience is the product of the senses and the understanding (cf. S20).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">(1.5.1) By understanding experience then we can study the judgements that make it possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">(1.5.2) These judgements are defined by concepts, which in turn can be described by a &#8220;Logical Table of Judgements&#8221; (S21).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\">(1.5.2.1) Justifies the table in S24-26.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\">(1.5.3) The reason for (1.5) is that &#8220;The union of representations in consciousness is\u00a0judgment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\">(1.5.3.1) This allows us to study the science of nature (cf. 1.4.4.3).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\">(1.5.3.2) Now we can address Hume&#8217;s problem of Cause, by first of all realizing that it is as mysterious as Substance. In any case, both are possible because they form the conditions for experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\">(1.5.3.3) Concepts (e.g. Cause) are properties of cognition, and not of (its) objects. Therefore they cannot be derived from objects directly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(1.6) In S30-32 Kant basically says &#8220;Yo, I was right&#8221; to Hume, and his other predecessors (including the dogmatic school and the common-sense school. Kant seems to enjoy himself here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(1.7) There is a limit to knowledge in the noumenon, although there is a temptation that other philosophers have fallen into by transgressing that boundary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content: Media review: Spartacus Continuing break-down of Kant-reading Media review: Spartacus Media I appreciate: Spartacus. Superficially this would seem the farthest of likelihood, yet whatever those base characters may be, they are redeemed by any number of virtues. It might be fairer to begin with the listing of the ostensible detriments. First and foremost, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,302,242,128,256,20,281],"tags":[],"metadata":[282],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-classicalphilosophers","category-evernote-entries","category-journal","category-kant","category-philosophy","category-reviews","metadata-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2719,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/09\/16\/monday-september-16-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2733,"position":0},"title":"Monday September 16, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"September 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: Although Shai refers to Kant in earlier essays, this is the\u00a0first where he is analysing Kant\u2019s writing and philosophical approach by analysing his \u201cProlegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science\u201d (definitely a mouthful, thus often referred to as Kant\u2019s Prolegomena).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2725,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/09\/20\/friday-september-20-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2733,"position":1},"title":"Friday September 20, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"September 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday's incomplete sentence was the end-point for what-was. It read: \"I can prove that\" What? I'll leave that as a prompt and introduction. A nebulous stepping-stone offering unknowns, and inconceivable benefits to what follows. Is this true? #This. I've turned to Kant, whose Prolegomena occupies my table and thoughts. It's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2742,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/07\/monday-october-7-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2733,"position":2},"title":"Monday October 7, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"October 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Meta: Idea: Have a list of contents at the top of each date. Each listing to be the text of a heading, or if not then at least some form of anchoring as repeated in the body. I follow now with an exemplar instance of this idea: NOTES on my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2740,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/05\/saturday-october-5-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2733,"position":3},"title":"Saturday October 5, 2013","author":"Pala","date":"October 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: The Evernote journal entry written on this day contains material (see the second paragraph in the post below) that is fundamental and pivotal to understanding Shai\u2019s life philosophy. I decided to deviate from one of my editorial principles and highlighted it for ease of reading. While the point\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2435,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/02\/28\/lucretius-the-nature-of-things\/","url_meta":{"origin":2733,"position":4},"title":"Lucretius &#8211; The Nature of Things","author":"Pala","date":"February 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Some essential part of stories lies in their telling. Here is a story: Kant has the idea of the sublime, whereby the aesthetic is significantly determined by its ability to transcend (and hence terrify) our senses. 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