Saturday, April 11, 2009

On Philosophical Clarity

I always enjoy a barely intelligible philosophical quote. Here is one from Hegel that I came across this morning. He is attempting to defining worldview:

Starting with a specific character of this sort, there is formed and established a moral outlook on the world [moralische Weltanschauung] which consists in a process of relating the implicit aspect of morality and the explicit aspect. This relation presupposes both thorough reciprocal indifference and specific Independence as between nature and moral purposes and activity; and also on the other side, a conscious sense of duty as the sole essential fact, and of nature as entirely devoid of independence and essential significance of its own. The moral view of the world [Die moralische Weltanschauung], the moral attitude, consists in the development of the moments which are found present in this relation of such entirely antithetic and conflicting presuppositions (as quoted in James W. Sire, Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept [Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2004], 24 n. 3).

That's a real life changer!

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