The Question that Drives the Inquiry
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The Question that Drives the Inquiry
gevans613 at aol.com wrote:
>Joe Polanik wrote:
>[Joe (earlier)]: a brain-injured person might retain the ability to
>self-reference without retaining the ability to recall the biographical
>details of his life; but, it does not follow that the brain-injured
>person is a model of the philosopher pursuing an inquiry to which the
>biographical details of life are irrelevant.
>[Jud (earlier)]: … when I speak of a person’s experiential biography
>or humanness - I am not referring to the ability to remember any
>particular episodes in that life-time of events - … I refer instead
>to the retrospective course of existing as an individual; from babyhood
>to one’s present age - a remembering of the GENERALITY of our
>existence, actions and events that occur in living as the selves we are
>HOWEVER HAZY those memories may be.
>Joe: new you persist in your colorful speculations concerning the
>spectrum of injuries that brain-injured patients may have; but, you
>still haven’t provided any support for the crucial assumption — that
>the condition of a brain-injured person is a valid model for the work
>of philosophers generally or of Descartes in particular.
>Jud: My own *speculations* or *meditations* better described as a
>*investigations* or *deconstructions* and are concerned with throwing
>some light upon the veracity of actual importance of the cogito as a
>so-called milestone in *philosophical investigation,*
>In relation to the position of the person depicted in the first
>meditation, who does not know who he is, and (by implication) what he
>is
the question driving Descartes’ inquiry is ‘what am I’ not ‘who am I’.
Joe
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