[Xmca-l] Re: Philosophie des Geistes?

Thu Jul 23 14:46:27 PDT 2020

Thanks for that point, and even for its uncharacteristic succinctness,
Annalisa. I should emulate it, but I as you can see I am not doing so
because of Jakobson's conative function of language (what Halliday calls
the interpersonal meta-function).

Vygotsky starts out by noticing that Lange (but not James) make an explicit
appeal to Spinoza, on precisely this point: fight-or-flight reactions are
essentially preservative in purpose, and the changes in the vasomotor
system he puts at the root of all human feeling are therefore examples of
what Spinoza calls conatus. Vygotsky rejects this. Spinoza is not writing
about the upkeep of a machine: that's a Cartesian schtick. The Ethics is
not Zen and the art of bipedal maintenance.

Spinoza's conatus is more like our sociability, the sense of togetherness
that humans try to maintain in almost all their interactions. Yes,
sociability is instinctive, but it's not just instinctive, is it? The
conative functions of language (the functions which allow us to exchange
goods and services and to share information) are something we all learn the
hard way, something we have to create anew with every communicative act,
and even, to a very large extent, something that was anathema to old
Spinoza--free will.

David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 6:29 AM Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu> wrote:

> David,
>
> But what of *conatus*? Isn't that something innate within all beings?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Annalisa
>
> P.S. This is likely the shortest post I've made in some lifetimes on this
> list. 🙂
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> Well, it's not me turning it around, of course. The James-Lange theory is
> what it is: you perceive something, your viscera or vasomotor muscles
> respond, and the emotion is the feeling of that happening to you. Lange, at
> any rate, seems to be thinking of the male sexual response.
>
> I think that's why Dewey says that Hegel's anticipation of the theory is
> crude. Vygotsky wouldn't (and doesn't) agree that an emotion is
> "expressed". An emotion is not a mental state of affairs expressed in
> physiological changes in the viscera/vasomotor muscles or contrariwise a
> change in the visceral/vascular state of affairs expressed in a mental one.
> (For that very reason, I think that Vygotsky wouldn't agree with Andy's
> waving analogy....)
>
> Spinoza uses the term "affect" or "affection" instead. It means more or
> less what it sounds like: the way in which a body is affected by the
> environment and vice versa. This can either increase or decrease the
> potential for a body for activity. The problem is that in order to make
> this a theory of specifically human emotions, this activity has to include
> the "activity" of making meanings, and Spinoza can't seem to address THAT
> issue without slipping into psycho-physical parallelism. (Halliday can,
> though....)
> :
> David Kellogg
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 8:19 PM Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:
>
> No, don't turn it around. The point is that organs are subordinate parts
> of the whole organism. The emotion *is* the state of a whole organism, in
> particular, a mental state. Like a hand expresses a feeling when we wave to
> someone.
>
> andy
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> On 23/07/2020 8:55 pm, David Kellogg wrote:
>
> Thanks, Andy--this is it!
>
> "In physiology the viscera and the organs are treated merely as parts
> subservient to the animal organism; but they form at the same time a
> physical system for the expression of mental states, and in this way they
> get quite another interpretation."
>
> The only problem is the word "expression". In the James-Lange theory, the
> mental states are the expression of the viscera and the organs. But perhaps
> that's what Hegel really means here: the viscera and organs are a system
> that expresses a state which we interpret as an emotion.
>
> (I remember a dear friend of mine getting a messy divorce and remarking,
> when I worried that he was losing a lot of weight, that it wasn't his heart
> that was broken but his stomach....)
>
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:19 PM Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:
>
> If you're interested in s. 401, then you'll probably be interested in 402
> as well.
>
> One other possibility: The "official" way of citing Hegel nowadays is to
> cite the page no. in the authoritative version of *Hegel Werke*. The
> German word for "page" is *Seite*, so you would say "S. 401" of the *Enc*,
> This turns out also to be an interesting passage of the Subjective Spirit,
> on Self-consciousness, concerned with the infamous Master-Slave dialectic,
> though in a much reduced form, not like in the *Phenomenology of Spirit*.
>
> See p. 401 in the other attachment, ENZYKl3.PDF, in German. English
> translation is here:
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> Andy
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> On 23/07/2020 5:47 pm, Andy Blunden wrote:
>
> The Philosophy of Spirit is the Third Part of the Encyclopaedia, itself
> composed of three parts:
>
>    - Subjective Spirit, which is commonly taken as Psychology
>    - Objective Spirit, which is commonly taken as Social Theory, and
>    - Absolute Spirit, which covers Art, religion, Science and Philosophy.
>
> The Encyclopaedia has numbered paragraphs. These do vary between 2 or
> editions, but these will be limited probably by those translated into
> English,
>
> I would start with the 1930 version"
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> - a very early stage in the development of mental life, or.
>
> The 1817 version has
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> - this version puts s. 401 at the beginning of a version of Objective
> Spirit.
> The 1830 one, above, has a long Note to it written by his students on the
> basis of Hegel's lectures which is a long discourse on the development of
> thinking from sensation. I am thinking this is what you mean. I will
> photocopy it and send it on.
>
> Andy
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> On 23/07/2020 5:09 pm, David Kellogg wrote:
>
> We are trying to turn Vygotsky's "Teaching on Emotion" into one of those
> cartoon books that are so popular here in Korea (e.g. the "Why?" series).
> It's not Vygotsky for dummies, but it will have a lot of pictures with
> questions and answers alongside Vygotsky's rather difficult text.
>
> We've got to figure out the text first. For example, what does John Dewey
> mean when he says:
>
> "On the historical side, it may be worth noting that a crude anticipation
> of James' theory is found in Hegel's Philosophie des Geistes, 401."?
>
> Did Hegel ever write a Philosophie des Geistes? If so, does the number
> refer to a page number or a section or what?
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