ZORT_SUMMARY Of Louise R, flesth's Notes of W's Radcliffe lectures, Fell 1924 4 (p39) (p.40) (pe42) (pea) (p43) (pee) (p45) (p46) (p.47) Explenstion:-Kant's, of knowledge of perceptual objects. Kont over-intélectuolized the experience. W emphasizes the process of realizatién, »which hes steges. Sense perception es 9 displey, & an achievement of value, realized. Final couse & efficient couse are both involved. ‘The functioning of conditions requires thet we find self-conditioning entities, vaguely observed. Community of space-time; unity of process. A sketch of the meteph ysicsl stendpoint we ore approaching: s Sejects question, How is knowledge possible? Rejects motion thot our knowledze is definite, shorp, oll-or+ none. Rejects Rus ell's notion of "privete worlds,"with idess inside the mind, An idea is 9 sociel entity, involving subject & object. Spinoze's messag The trouble with monism. Relational significance of things, Spinoza"s ‘modes' Mere being equivelent to non-entity. “xistents, (Pletonic) forms, are possibilities, involved in the process of realization. Process of reslization involves: displey, valustion, directive pessing on to otherness of modes. Concrete fect involves final and efficient causes, Final & efficient esuses are identical except that final couse is en abstraction.(pe49) (9250) (9.51) (p.52) (9653) (Pe54) (55) (9056) (2.57) (p.58) (p59) (p.60) Oct, 18. Meaning of 'beyond'. Realisation is the establishment of definite relstiénship. Ignoring is the basis of sbstraction. Remarks on 'beyondness Process of abstroction. Cognizance by relatedness & by adjective. Oct. 23. Kant!'s discussion of experience. Kant & "Hume on the the significones of generel truths. Ws ddsogrece with both tune & Kent in thet experience gives no veyondneas----"beyondness' con only be discovered through the auslgeial of ist woceston, Ways of getting out of Hume's dilemma: I) on occasion does imply a peyond; 2% Hume, contrary to his affirmation, dees not oppesl 2)James,with his prag., takes practice into his philos. to practice. Not wolly successful, but very valuable. 3) Kanto. we postulates - useless, if ypu hove wed Where W. diverges from Kent" ° no Rnowledge some idess are not from without. 4) Some Humions make (2) How you ogh get beyond immediate sense-dete. 2) Kent is guilty of fellecy of mispleced concreténess, Further remerks, Greennesss green-patehiness. Noked cense-dota; con- ceptual abstraction. Relationality is essentiel to whole procedure of abstraction. Bxenple of foklecy of misplaced concreteness. Universe of perception is more fundementel than universe of discourse. No entity is self-sufficient, "Logical universsls' sre outcome of ‘logical verisble', devoid of content but indicating relation to sterting point,(p.6r) (p.62) (9.63) (p64) (p-65) (9.66) (p.67) (p68) (p.69) (9.70) (p.72) (9.72) (2.73) Differing grades of sbstraction(in perception of green). Choracter of process is built from relevance of abstraction in addition to particuler occgsion. Agreement with Aristotle; RS*EREREREOS Fsaue bp itself, Value ae shaved = ingression of forms into events, Objects to subject-predicate point of view. Substence-quality point of view has arisen from simplification of longuag Aristotle's logic has been mislesding philosophy. Remorks, Aristotle on mtter/form; texcluded middle takes Process emeeisiny account of existence ss potentislity or envisoge- potentislity. monte Oct, 30. Aristotle feels thot what we ore dealing with in meto— physics is not something with background left out but ie sll- inclusive, Subject motter mist include its own bockeround. Ardétotle on movement. missing nissing Nov, 1, Aristotle's distinction between Udy and cios is mek better thon his oubject-predicate logic. Unfortunately the ground by which thimgs ore whet they are has, in t West, beon identified with s personel Goa. Nov. 4. ‘Tendency to make the eternal the real, the perticulors the appesrences. In Arist, the Eternal "God" only thought (Wi says onvissgement=thoughtl Danger in thinking of Eternal as a Being. three stages in the course of the history of philosophy: primitive, culminstion, development (leading to new primitive).