Monday, August 20, 2012

Experimental Reason and Morality

Aristotle's definition of humanity as 'Homo Sapiens' carries the moral  implication that the Good consists in a state of Knowledge, i. e. in Contemplation.  Accordingly, a re-definition of humanity as 'Homo Faber' implies that the Good consists in some act of making, and, as 'Homo Ludens', in some playful performance.  Thus, the exercise of Experimental Reason, an expression of Homo Ludens, as has been previously discussed, can be morally, and not merely epistemologically or logically, significant, a significance that is difficult to appreciate in the compartmentalization typical of contemporary Academic Philosophy.

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