Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Communication, Intuition, Immanent Alteriority

For Kant, Communication explains the inter-personal sharing of Subjective Aesthetic Judgments.  However, he misses how Communication is a factor in his concept of a divine reward for Virtue, i. e. the transmission of approval.  He also misses that artistic creation, like Philosophical creation, can be an instance of Communication, i. e. insofar as it is produced with an audience in mind, e. g. published.  Thus, his concept of such creativity exposes an inadequacy in Spinoza's concept of Intuition.  For, according to Kant, artistic creativity is inspired by Genius, the ultimate source of which is Nature.  But, in Spinoza's doctrine, Nature is divine.  Hence, an element in his Intuition, which consists in the Modal awareness of itself as divinely creative, is Communication, and, hence, the awareness of the existence of others, i. e. of addressees of Communication, an element that Spinoza thus misses.  Similarly, like Descartes before him, and probably like most publishing Philosophers since, the existence of others is entailed in the inspiration that motivates him to create.  Nevertheless, such immanent alteriority usually remains absent from the content of their creations, a structural flaw insofar as they are presented as comprehensive accounts of Existence, and antithetical to any presumed Atomist content.

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